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user2602850
user2602850

Reputation: 41

How can I create a file with FileWriter within my project file using relative path

I am using NetBean and glassFish for developing jsp website and its server. In the server side, I have a java class which generate a text file using FileWriter:

FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("the-file-name.txt", true);

But I found that this file was saved in the directory of glassfish:

C:\Program Files (x86)\glassfish-4.0\glassfish\domains\domain1\config

Also, by checking the path by the code:

Path currentRelativePath = Paths.get("");
String s = currentRelativePath.toAbsolutePath().toString();
System.out.println("Current relative path is: " + s);

the result is also the same with the above path.

How can I get the correct relative path, whether the path of the project or the path of this java file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2855

Answers (2)

Tusar
Tusar

Reputation: 769

In Servlet

String filePath = getServletContext().getRealPath("/").replace("\\", "/");

In JSP

String filePath = session.getServletContext().getRealPath("/").replace("\\", "/");

Upvotes: 0

Stefan Carlson
Stefan Carlson

Reputation: 372

This gets the location of the class/jar you are running:

String path = System.getProperty("user.dir");

The string path holds the absolute directory, and using somthing like
path = path.replace("jars", "");, you can find the root directory for the application. For example, if the jar is in the directory C:\Program Files\Example\jars, this would set path to
C:\Program Files\Example\

Upvotes: 1

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