How to get URL of a resource in AppCtxt?

To date, my solution to this has been a custom listener that does all the work programatically, but it looks as if URLEditor might be the correct answer. I just can't find any examples that show me how it might be used.

I have an xsd located in /xsd of my WAR. I need a URL to that resource to inject into a bean. Is URLEditor the answer?

Thanks,
Dave

Hi,

You could put the xsl in the same package/directory as your bean and then inject its value using

Code:

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<property name="xsdlocation" value="classpath:com/test/test.xsd"/>

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note the type of the property should be Resource

Yes, but I'd like to make the xsd available to other users externally. I don't think I can do that if it's in the classpath "area" of my WAR. Can I?

Well, it's a little ugly, but I do have something of a solution.

Since my ContextLoaderListener has access to the ServletContext, it can easily retrieve the URL of a resource. So, I'm having it get the relative path from the bean, figure out the URL of that path, then put that URL back into the bean.

I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do this, but it'll work for now.
Dave

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Yes, but I'd like to make the xsd available to other users externally. I don't think I can do that if it's in the classpath "area" of my WAR. Can I?

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Hi, If you would want to make the xsd available to external users via HTTP, you can try the following option.

you could inject the path of the xsd in a bean,

then you could write a simple abstract controller and inject the above bean into it,
extract the xsd and put it into the map of the ModelAndView,

the jsp would then serve it out.