[APA-48] WebResourceUtils bombs with NPX if application is packaged as a non-expanded WAR file under Tomcat

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: apa-webcontent-1.2
• Fix Version/s: apa-webcontent-1.3
• Component/s: apa-webcontent
• Assignee: Woonsan Ko
• Reporter: David Graff
• Created: 17/May/12 13:12
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:30
• Resolved: 15/Feb/13 19:58

Description

While testing an application configuration when packaged as a non-expanded WAR file the DefaultHttpReverseProxyServlet dies with a NullPointerException when calling WebResourceUtils.getResourcesAsFiles(String, ClassLoader, Object).

The reason for this is that when packaged in a WAR file and not expanded, Tomcat provides a WARDirContext which returns null when requesting "getRealPath"

Would it be possible to change this around such that the code is not dealing with files specifically and dealing with them as references & streams?

This configuration issue is a blocker for my current product.

If possible could the ServletContext.getResource/getResourceAsStream be used to determine the resource location and load it that way when "/WEB-INF/" is the start of the path?

Issue Links

• is related to: APA-51 Glob style properties file configuration doesn't work in non-expanded war deployment