URL handler on jboss 6

[vladoseprak]

Hello,

I was using JBoss 4.2.3 for some time and now I'm migrating my application to JBoss 6.0.0.Final. For storing files on different file storages (dms, filesystem, ..) i was using URL handlers. On jboss 6.0.0.Final I'm getting following error

13:38:09,078 ERROR [STDERR] java.net.UnknownServiceException: protocol doesn't support output
13:38:09,078 ERROR [STDERR]     at java.net.URLConnection.getOutputStream(URLConnection.java:792)

when executing code:

    URLConnection connection = storeUrl.openConnection();
    connection.setDoOutput(true);
    connection.connect();
    OutputStream os = new BufferedOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());

storeUrl is something like this file:/c:/folder/file.ftl. On Jboss 4.2.3 this was working fine. How can I get writable connection on JBoss 6?

Any help appriciated.

[nickarls]

Haven't tried anything like that but isn't the file URL something like file:///c:/foo.bar?

[nickarls]

Hmm, nevermind. It apparently recognizes it enough to know what's supported and what not. But a bit strange since I would think that should never had worked since they protocols are in the JRE.

[vladoseprak]

It worked. I have doublechecked with fresh installation of 4.2.3. The difference is that connection obtained on Jboss 6 is of type org.jboss.vfs.protocol.FileURLConnection (getOutputStream throws exception by default) and on Jboss 4.2.3 is org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection and this one has getOutputStream method implemented. Now the question is how to make

this work on jboss 6.

[nickarls]

Where does the storeUrl come from in the first place?

[nickarls]

Don't know if this discussion snippet is relevant/useable... http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/4gws3t7tHzDTGGGwuKYS

[vladoseprak]

Url is created with new URL(null,filePath). In mentioned discussion they use JBoss specific classes (org.jboss.net.protocol.URLStreamHandlerFactory). I would like to avoid that. It seems that I should implement my own file: protocol handler instead of using default from jboss.

[nickarls]

That would probably be the most compatible solution, yes. I guess the JBoss implementations can be good examples.