Thursday, 7 February 2013

Path Translation Methods | Java Servlets

Path Translation Methods

There are two convenience methods in the API which allow the Developer to obtain the file system path equivalent to a particular path. 
These methods are:
=> ServletContext.getRealPath
=> HttpServletRequest.getPathTranslated
The getRealPath method takes a String argument and returns a String representation of a file on the local file system to which a path corresponds. The getPathTranslated method computes the real path of the pathInfo of the request. In situations where the servlet container cannot determine a valid file path for these methods, such as when the Web application is executed from an archive, on a remote file system not accessible locally, or in a database, these methods must return null.

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