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solyarist
solyarist

Reputation: 434

Executing a java application (.jar) in Django

While trying to run the following code from django application's views

Code: views.py

def tika(fileName):
    os.popen('java -jar tika-app.jar -t %s > textOutput.txt' % fileName)
    return 0

....
# filepath == path to a file
# call java applications
tika(filepath)
....

I get the following error messages:

Error: Unable to access jarfile tika-app.jar

I feel that it has something to do with file permissions for django application, but this is just my guess.

If it might help to know - the java application is in the same directory as the django app.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2492

Answers (1)

solyarist
solyarist

Reputation: 434

Found the part that was causing the problem:

The java application should be in the Django's project directory level and not at the Django's application directory level.

Lesson from this: Even though the running code (views.py) is in the Django's application level, it is run from one level up - the project level.

Upvotes: 6

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