Find actual path of webcontent

Question

Im doing a small webb application in JSP which needs to have a file upload function.

Problem is that I cant find out how to get the relative path to my webcontents folder. I need a dynamic way to get there so I can save the files in a folder relative to that path.

So far I have tried:

  String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
  String contextPath = request.getContextPath();
  String realPath = request.getRealPath();
  String servletPath = request.getServletPath();

None of them gives the actual WebContents path. I guess there is one method I have overlooked but cant find out which.

Answer 1

use

request.getServletContext().getRealPath("/");

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• servletContext.getRealPath()

Answer 2

Don't do that! First, getRealPath works only if your webapp is expanded and second if you redeploy your app, the entire upload is wiped out.