Inpust stream path issue

[Ayyappan Selvaraj]

I try to get the contnets of a file in my class. I use the following code snippet.

But I find that the input streams 'rules' and 'is' are null. I guess that the path of the xml file is not being recongnized.

Please help...


String path =(String)req.getRealPath("/WEB-INF/").replace('\\','/');
String outPath=path.concat("/validator-rules.xml");
InputStream rules = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(outPath);
final InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/validation.xml");

[ramprasad madathil]

That's servlet code. In web applications, an easier and fool proof way to get handles to an input stream is to use the ServletContext's getResourceAsStream("path") method where path should begin with "/". The "/" represents the servlet's context.

Thus

ServletContext ctx = request.getServletContext();
InputStream rules = ctx.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml");
final InputStream is = ctx.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/validation.xml"); 

ram.

[Ayyappan Selvaraj]

Ram,

its working now. Thanks you very much.
and you know Struts?