Allowing Relative Paths to Work with Tomcat 8

Please note that in Tomcat 8.0, documents will load using absolute path, and not a relative path.

The relative path is resolved to an absolute in FileContentHandler.setFilePath() via a call to context.getRealPath(relativePathName).

The relativePathName should start with a /.

Please see the following code sample to allow relative paths to work on Tomcat 8 (also, see FileContentHandler in the Content Handler API documentation).

public static void setFilePath(String pathParam, ServletContext context)
{
  if ((pathParam.startsWith("./") || pathParam.startsWith(".\\"))
  && context != null)
    {
    pathParam = pathParam.replace("./", "/"); pathParam = pathParam.replace(".\\\\", "/");
    gFilePath = context.getRealPath(pathParam)
    + File.separator;
    }
  else
    {
    gFilePath = pathParam;
    }
  Logger.getInstance().log(Logger.INFO,
  "File path for documents is configured to "+ gFilePath);
}