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Walter Cecil Worsley IV
Walter Cecil Worsley IV

Reputation: 474

Read text file in JSF WebContent folder

Ok, so I am trying to retrieve and read a text file that is in a WebContent/resources/ folder in my JSF project and I have no idea how to get the relative path to if from my backing bean... Any Suggestions on how to go about retrieving and reading this file?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 6085

Answers (2)

Alexandre Lavoie
Alexandre Lavoie

Reputation: 8771

You can read your file with resource functions as described in this answer :

How to reference file resource in a JSF Application

InputStream stream = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext()
.getResourceAsStream("/foo.xsd");

Upvotes: 0

Stéphane
Stéphane

Reputation: 877

((ServletContext) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getContext()).getRealPath("/resources/")

will give you the file system path of the resources folder.

Upvotes: 3

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