Setting Upload directory

27 May '14, 11:48 AM
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Hi,

More issues with uploading files. I am implementing the functionality to store a file (image) locally rather than in the database. I want to create a link to the image so that whnen it is requested it is not making a db call.

Initially the upload was going to uploads/ent/<number> but the ent/<number> bit changed and seemed a bit random to work with. The only path information I gave upload/ and java/webratio was adding in the rest. I then changed the script to create a file explicitely but now I get an error that the path does not exist. When I pass out the full path of the file I am trying to create I see it is trying to create the file in the tomcat/bin folder.

How can I set the upload directory just to be upload? Or alternatively is there a way I can use the ${webapp_loc} and ${projectname} (I think they are correct) Webratio variables inside a script? These would let me create the full path correctly?

Thanks,

Paul

 
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Hi,

To achieve this, you must edit the ${webapp_loc}//WebContent/WEB-INF/conf/RTXConfig.properties

Within this file, it is a property called "uploadDirectory=" which is comment (with #). Uncomment this and set the directory designed to store uploaded files. This path must be relative to the work directory. If you want to set and absoluth path, uncomment the next property ("uploadDirectoryIsAbsolute") and set it to true.

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Thanks. This resolved the issue. I think the fact I missed was that the application runs from tomcat/bin, not from the application directory as I thought. Som making the path ralative from tomcat/bin works.

I guess the only thing I need to check is that the path structure will be the same when the application is deployed as opposed to running unde eclipse. I did try using a variable in RTXConfig.properties but this only printed out the variable name. Is it not possible to use variables in this file? If it is, what is the syntax?

Thanks,

Paul

 
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Hi,

Test with ${RTXConfig.properties}

 
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Hi,

 

As far as I understood, you want to be sure that your relative upload path works is managed at the beginning of generation process? If this is true you can try the following approach

In Webratio, in "Webratio Explorer" window create the same structure that you have in webapps folder.

So, under the WR project create WebContent/WEB-INF/conf/ folder. Copy the RTXConfig.properties from the previous generated code (${webapp_loc}/WebContent/WEB-INF/conf/RTXConfig.properties). Now you can modify this file inside the project and when you will deploy you'll have the same properties/values defined in it. 

Also, in order to read/write variables inside this RTXConfig.properties file, I think you can use the java to achieve this task.

 

To read variables inside RTXConfig.properties :

 

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;
 
public class App{
  public static void readProperties(String path) {
  
        // path = "pathToRTX/RTXConfig.properties"
	Properties prop = new Properties();
	InputStream input = null;
 
	try {
 
		input = new FileInputStream(path);
 
		// load RTX Config
		prop.load(input);
 
		// get the property value and print it out
		System.out.println(prop.getProperty("uploadDirectory"));
		System.out.println(prop.getProperty("uploadDirectoryIsAbsolute"));
 
	} catch (IOException ex) {
		ex.printStackTrace();
	} finally {
		if (input != null) {
			try {
				input.close();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}
 
  }
}

 

To write variables inside RTXConfig.properties you can use the following method:

 

 public static void writeProperty(String pathOfFile, String property, String value) {	
// path = "pathToRTX/RTXConfig.properties"
        Properties prop = new Properties();
	OutputStream output = null;
 
	try {
 
		output = new FileOutputStream("path);
 
		// set the properties value
		prop.setProperty(property, value);
		//prop.setProperty("uploadDirectory", "/relativePath");
		// save properties to project root folder
		prop.store(output, null);
 
	} catch (IOException io) {
		io.printStackTrace();
	} finally {
		if (output != null) {
			try {
				output.close();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}
 
  }
}

 

Hope this will help you

 
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