Question

I have a tomcat running my CXF-based webapp.

Methods I work with have signatures like that:

@GET
@Path ("/handler/contract/{ItemId}")
@Produces ("application/xml")
public Item getItem(@PathParam("ItemId") Integer ItemId) throws Exception{  
    //...
    return item;
}

This is usually very useful since I don’t have to deal with reponse/request objects and cover the business logic.

But now I need to access a local file in order to insert it into a PDF. I looked at all items here and in the doc but couldn’t find a reliable, easy way to access the Context or Request to find the current path of the webapp so I can access the file within the exploded WAR.

Any help how to get the current local path of the CXF-webapp?

Answer 1

As always, if you finally wrote a post you’ll find the solution yourself. With the @Context annotation you’ll get the correct context.

@GET
@Path ("/handler/contract/{ItemId}")
@Produces ("application/xml")
public Item getItem(@Context ServletContext context, @PathParam("ItemId") Integer ItemId) throws Exception{  
    //retrieve the local path from the context
    String currentLocalPath = context.getRealPath(".");
    //...
    return item;
}

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