Re: [Bodington-developers] How to obtain a file from the Bodington servlet?

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
> This must be the original dumb question, but... I'm deep in code called
> from BuildingSessionImpl, and I want to get hold of a file in a known
> location within the servlet.  Is there a known sensible way of doing
> this?  Or is it a case of using the good ol' bodington.home property and
> changing the code when that goes away?

In the WebLearn HEAD I have removed the system property "bodington.home" 
and was going to email the list about pushing those changes over the 
Bodington HEAD.

I do have a replacement Bodington property 
("buildingservlet.context.root") that is set at servlet startup time and 
is local to the context, but this is a bodington property rather than a 
System one.

The advantage of not using the system property is that you can have two 
Bodingtons running in the same container without them treading on each 
others toes.

I also use this change for the quickstart WAR so that you can install 
Bodington without having to run SetupServlet.

Can I ask why you are wanting to get hold of a file in 
BuildingSessionImpl? Is this a file you could load out of the classpath? 
or do you need to write values back to it?

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