Solder / getWebResource to all files in a folder - How?

[aykay]

Hi there.

Solder makes it easy to get access to a server resource.

WebResourceLocator locator = new WebResourceLocator();

InputStream inputStream = locator.getWebResource("/WEB-INF/standard_resources/legalnote.txt");

But what if I want to have access to ALL files residing in /WEB-INF/standard_resources dynamically ?? Means, regardless of what's been put inside /WEB-INF/standard_resources each file gets processed. In that case I don't know the file names.

One way, of course, would be to use

File folder = new File("../standalone/deployments/PROJECTNAME.war/WEB-INF/standard_resources");

But this stinks.

Is there a way to get access to all resources dynamically in a given folder using Solder?

Thank you !!

[lightguard]

We never had that use case come up when we designed the feature. As far as I know, there isn't a way to do this with Solder.

[aykay]

Thanks!

In fact I programmed a solution meanwhile which I'll post a soon as I can spare some time.

Cheers, and keep up the great stuff you're doing.

[davisonri_k12]

Great. I was looking to do something similar to load up multiple seam-beans.xml files (broken down into smaller more meaningful parts from the big seam-beans.xml that I initially had). it would be great if you can post your solution. Thanks

[aykay]

Hi Dave.

Terribly sorry about my late respone.

In the mean time project demands had altered in a way that my solution simply doesn't fit the original question anymore. When mentioning it I wasn't aware of this. Now I could spare some time to figure out how I'd solve my original request. Please bear with me that I again sticked to using java.io.File to get hold of all file names residing in a parcticular web folder. In order to input stream and process all of them I did:

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
...
public void processAllResources(String folderInWebContext) throws IOException
{
     ServletContext servletContext = (ServletContext)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getContext();

     if (folderInWebContext.charAt(0) != '/') // Add global web root
          folderInWebContext = "/" + folderInWebContext;

     File webRootFolder = new File(servletContext.getRealPath(folderInWebContext));
     File[] files = webRootFolder.listFiles();

     if (files != null)
          for (File file : files)
          {
               String fileName = file.getName();
               String resourceTerm = folderInWebContext + "/" + fileName;
               WebResourceLocator locator = new WebResourceLocator();
               InputStream inputStream = locator.getWebResource(resourceTerm);
               // Process this input stream
               // ...
               inputStream.close();
          }
}

As always, code can surely be improved and I welcome hints. Of course, I tested it successfully.

Cheers

AyKay