20) Create Relative and Absolute Paths.

 

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Relative paths in Xload are paths that are relative to the web application root folder whereas absolute paths are absolute to the machine and are machine dependant.

 

 

Relative Paths:

 

Web application directory - c:\WebApp  (Windows™)

Resource folder within that web application - c:\WebApp\Folders\ResourceFolder  (Windows™)

 

Relative path to resource folder used in Xload would be - Folders/ResourceFolder (notice the forward slash and not backward)

 

(You CAN specify an empty relative path which will target the web application root)

 

 

IMPORTANT:-  Note that no matter what platform Xload was working on the relative path would be the same.

 

 

Absolute Paths:

 

An absolute path is machine specific and depends upon the platform Xload is working on. The following examples show this:

 

C:\WebApp\Folders\ResourceFolder      (Windows™)

 

/WebApp/Folders/ResourceFolder       (Linux/Unix/OS X)

 

(Obviously a File.separatorChar could be used to separate directory names for cross-platform support)

 

 

 

IMPORTANT:-  If Xload is being used without a HttpServletRequest object (i.e. not specified in the XloadManager constructor) then all paths MUST be absolute.

 

 

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