On 01/09/2009, Larry Isaacs <larry.isa...@sas.com> wrote:
> Hi Filip,
>
>  I have a vague recollection about tripping over this issue while working on 
> the Tomcat support in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform.  WTP has its own 
> version(s) of VirtualWebappLoader, called WtpWebappLoader, to address it.  If 
> I'm recalling the issue correctly, pre-pending "file:/" worked on Windows, 
> but not on Linux since an absolute path ended up as "file://somedir/...".  I 
> believe with the change below, pre-pending "file://" will work for Linux, but 
> not for Windows, i.e. "file://C:/somedir/..." is going to have problems.  If 
> it helps, I went with the URL form "file:/somedir/..." and used the following 
> code snippet to get it working for Windows and Linux in WtpWebappLoader:
>
>
>             String path = file.getAbsolutePath();
>             if (path.startsWith("/")) {
>                 path = "file:" + path;
>             } else {
>                 path = "file:/" + path;
>             }
>             if (file.isDirectory()) {
>                 addRepository(path + "/");

Also, perhaps consider using FileSystem.getPathSeparator() instead of "/" ?

>             } else {
>                 addRepository(path);
>             }
>
>  Cheers,
>
> Larry
>
>
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: fha...@apache.org [mailto:fha...@apache.org]
>  > Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:22 PM
>  > To: dev@tomcat.apache.org
>  > Subject: svn commit: r810132 - /tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/STATUS.txt
>  >
>  > Author: fhanik
>  > Date: Tue Sep  1 17:21:59 2009
>  > New Revision: 810132
>  >
>  > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=810132&view=rev
>  > Log:
>  > proposal
>  >
>  > Modified:
>  >     tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/STATUS.txt
>  >
>  > Modified: tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/STATUS.txt
>  > URL:
>  > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/STATUS.txt?rev=810132
>  > &r1=810131&r2=810132&view=diff
>  > =======================================================================
>  > =======
>  > --- tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/STATUS.txt (original)
>  > +++ tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/STATUS.txt Tue Sep  1 17:21:59 2009
>  > @@ -321,3 +321,25 @@
>  >    +1: funkman
>  >    -1:
>  >
>  > +
>  > +* Fix VirtualWebappClassLoader file directives
>  > +  Index: java/org/apache/catalina/loader/VirtualWebappLoader.java
>  > +===================================================================
>  > +--- java/org/apache/catalina/loader/VirtualWebappLoader.java
>  >       (revision 810099)
>  > ++++ java/org/apache/catalina/loader/VirtualWebappLoader.java
>  >       (working copy)
>  > +@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@
>  > +                 continue;
>  > +             }
>  > +             if (file.isDirectory()) {
>  > +-                addRepository("file:/" + file.getAbsolutePath() +
>  > "/");
>  > ++                addRepository("file://" + file.getAbsolutePath() +
>  > "/");
>  > +             } else {
>  > +-                addRepository("file:/" + file.getAbsolutePath());
>  > ++                addRepository("file://" + file.getAbsolutePath());
>  > +             }
>  > +         }
>  > +
>  > +  +1: fhanik
>  > +  -1:
>  > +
>  > +
>  >
>  >
>  >
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