Directory Creation

[Arpit Gadle]

Dear All,
I want to create a directory(in tomcat) inside my current webapplication i.e DemoDirApp. This is the code of the servlet. This servlet code creates the directory in C:\ where the tomcat is installed

    
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

import java.io.*;

public class DemoDir
	extends HttpServlet
{
	public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)
		throws ServletException,IOException
	{
		ServletContext servletContext=getServletContext();

		System.out.println("Inside doGet()...");
		try
		{
			File f=new File("/images/testdir");
			f.mkdirs();
		}
		catch(Exception e)
		{
			System.out.println("Caught Exception:\n\t"+e);
		}
	}
}

Need your help


Regards
Arpit U. Gadle

[Sebastian Janisch]

Uhm, what exactly is your problem ? Do exceptions occus ?

[William Brogden]

 File f=new File("/images/testdir");   

If you expected that directory to be relative to your application, you have the wrong idea.

The class java.io.File deals with operating system directories, to get the translation from application relative to operating system, look into the ServletContext getRealPath() documentation.

Bill

[Arpit Gadle]

Hi,
Thanks Williams,

There is indeed know that the path which I used is wrong and thanks for giving the correct explanation. Will check with the getRealPath().


Thanks
Arpit