Invalid relative resource location using import statement

[barrel]

To all,

When using the <import resource="displays.xml" /> statement in my beans.xml file (they are both in the same directory), I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionSt oreException: Invalid relative resource location [displays.xml] to import bean definitions from; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Cannot create a relative resource for resource loaded through InputStream
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Cannot create a relative resource for resource loaded through InputStream
at org.springframework.core.io.AbstractResource.creat eRelative(AbstractResource.java:91)

Relative? Ok, I tried <import resource="../../../...etc.../displays.xml" /> withough any luck

Absolute path gives the same error.... :-(

Any help appreciated
Barry

[barrel]

Here is some more info.

my beans.xml actually starts like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>
<description>
IDS is an Information Display System
</description>
<import resource="displays.xml" />

Now... If I move the import statement ABOVE the description, I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionSt oreException: Line 299 in XML document from resource loaded through InputStream is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of element type "beans" must match "(description?,import*,bean*)".
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of element type "beans" must match "(description?,import*,bean*)".

It doesn't matter in this case wether the displays.xml has a proper xml heading or whether it simply starts with a bean definition, the error remains the same

Barry

[irbouho]

Cannot create a relative resource for resource loaded through InputStream

it sees like you are using

BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(inputStream);

Using this approach, Spring can not resolve relative resource. Try something like:

  Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("config/applicationContext.xml");
  BeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(resource);

or

  ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("config/applicationContext.xml");

Now... If I move the import statement ABOVE the description, I get the following error:

import must always be used after description. Spring DTD forces this order.
HTH

[barrel]

Thanks, that did the trick!

[sushil]

HI,
I am trying to refer an on application context file in another

1st Xml is present at the path /vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml (This is the one i am trying to refer)

2nd Xml is present at the path /vl-download/src/applicationContext.xml

so my /vl-download/src/applicationContext.xml looks as below.

<beans>
<import resource="../../vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml" />

but i am not able to do so... and getting the following error on server start up.

[INFO] Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [applicationContext.xml]
[INFO] Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [../../vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml]
[ERROR] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [../../vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [../../vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [../../vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
	at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:137)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:167)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:374)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:338)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:197)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:295)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:223)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:128)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:144)
	at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126)
	at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:262)
	at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:139)
	at org.springframework.web.struts.ContextLoaderPlugIn.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoaderPlugIn.java:353)
	at org.springframework.web.struts.ContextLoaderPlugIn.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoaderPlugIn.java:296)
	at org.springframework.web.struts.ContextLoaderPlugIn.init(ContextLoaderPlugIn.java:225)
	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModulePlugIns(ActionServlet.java:867)
	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:334)

Please sugget me some solution.

[dinak]

use

<import resource="classpath:../../vl-common/src/vlcommonContext.xml" />

ie add classpath: before the filename

[amir55]

hi dear staff and all

1 - I have used next but none works

a - applicationContext = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {"src/applicationContext.xml"}); // file not found

b - applicationContext = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("src/applicationContext.xml");// file not found

c - applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:src/applicationContext.xml");// file not found

d -

2 - errro

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [src/applicationContext.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getI nputStream(ClassPathResource.java:143)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefin itionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionR eader.java:336)
... 15 more

3 - Do I miss a jar file as I used MyEclipse libraries for hibernate 3.2, spring 2.5 also same error with spring 2.0

4 - by the way Iuse MyEclipse 8.0 and jboss 4.2.

many thanks

Amir