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Cris,
On 3/9/17 3:18 PM, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote:
>>> BTW, why doesn't getRealPath return the full path to the folder
>>> that the WAR file is in instead of null?
>>
>> You mean for a call like getRealPath("/")?
>
> Yes, exactly!
>
>> Well, that would require a path to be returned to the "root" of
>> the application. Let's say that ROOT.war is in
>> /home/tomcat/webapps/ROOT.war and also index.html is in the
>> "root" of the WAR File.
>>
>> If you used getRealPath("/index.html") it would, as described,
>> return null -- because there's no file path that could get you to
>> that file.
>>
>> If you used getRealPath("/") and then added "/index.html" to the
>> end of it, you'd expect to be able to read index.html from the
>> resulting path (/home/tomcat/webapps/index.html). Not only does
>> that not work (because the file isn't there), it's not even the
>> right path. The "right" path (if there even is one) would be
>> something like "/home/tomcat/webapps/ROOT.war/index.html".
>
> While that is exactly the sort of result I would want, it does
> seem kind of hackish. It isn't a response that can be supplied to a
> file system to retrieve the file. It would require some sort of
> analysis and parsing. So I can see why null is the safer answer,
> even if I don't like it. ;-)
If you really REALLY want a file path, you could use the catalina.base
system property or the tmpdir and go from there. The former is
Tomcat-specific, of course, and the tmpdir would be *anywhere*, but if
you just really REALLY need a path on the disk, you could get it from
there.
>> So when the WAR is not unpacked, there really isn't any
>> meaningful return value from getRealPath, even for special- cases
>> like "" or "/".
>
> Thanks for explaining. I need to absorb all that info.
>
> Also, maybe I'm not asking the right question. How do you all
> configure the location of a special folder that is not part of the
> deployment package itself? A site-specific config file perhaps?
Well-known location like /etc/myapp/config.cfg? Well-known
configuration URL like https://internal-config.myapp.com/config.cfg?
> Currently I'm using getRealPath for a relative-path location, but
> it sounds like that may need to be changed. Fortunately, the impact
> points are somewhat limited since all calls to getRealPath are
> wrapped with other centralized methods.
If the file can be bundled with the WAR file (which would be best),
then you should get
ServletContext.getResource("/path/rooted/in/the/WAR/file/config.cfg").
- -chris
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