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trouble with Runtime.exec()

 
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i have a directory full of files that needs to be deleted every time my jsp is called so i am using is Runtime.exec() to do it

i am trying to do it as follows

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("del TEMP_FILES\*.*");

it works when i type it into the dos terminal, but it doesnt work from the jsp.

maybe i just suck at dos or something, lol

drop me a line

thanks
 
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Why not simply doing:
 
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1. your statement

depends on the "current" directory to work correctly. In servlet/jsp you have no way to be sure what directory that is.
2. As I recall, del is a system command, not an executable program
3. What happens if one user is in the middle of something using the temp files and a new user enters the system?

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you make a good point.

here is what im trying to do, im using the JFreeChart api in order to generate graphs of some data that i have. im not sure how to buffer these graphs directly to the browser so the user can view them. right now its set to generate a .png file. hence deleteing the temp images. but if there is a way i can buffer the output to the browser, that would work best i think

here is some code that i have that pertains to generating the jfreechart and .png files.




any suggestions?
thanks
[ June 29, 2004: Message edited by: Jason Crest ]
 
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Normally this is done in two steps.
1. record the data that will be used to generate the image in a session and write the HTML page with <img src="theservleturlplussomekey"
2. When the browser does that image request, use the session information to create the PNG into a ByteArrayOutputStream (which creates a byte[] in memory), set the response headers to the content-length and content-type and send the binary image data.

No file involved, everything in memory - automatically GCed.
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im not quite so good at doing the above, however i did try something like



however, it doesnt display the image to the browser
 
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Some browser are picky about having a content-length header set. Thats the primary reason for writing to an internal buffer first so you can set the length.
resp.setContentType( typeString );
resp.setContentLength( sizeN );
Note those must be called BEFORE you send the byte[] that the ByteArrayOutputStream created.

As I recall, .PDF viewers are also sensitive to getting the right size.
Bill
[ July 01, 2004: Message edited by: William Brogden ]
 
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