Call external images/video/other resources from external folder with (embebbed) jetty from GWT

[n3k0]

Hi.
I actually have a trouble with calls to external resources like image/video. I read in the jetty docs, and some examples on the internet, and i found i have to do
a configuration like this:

<Configure id="parentHandler" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler">
    <Set name="contextPath">/folder_name_of_static_resources</Set>
    <Set name="resourceBase">/real/filesystem/path/to/static/resources/</Set>
    <Set name="handler">
    <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ResourceHandler">
        <Set name="cacheControl">max-age=3600,public</Set>
    </New>
    </Set>
</Configure>

So, in my code, i want to get an image, in the form:

GWT.getModuleBaseURL()+"/folder_name_of_static_resources/the_image.jpg"

But, when jetty runs, it marks

Result: 404 image not found

Now, why i want to do in this way?
I want to get video from a form, and after that, can view it in a videoplayer. i don't want to use a database (blob) because some files can be too heavy (5 to 100 MB aprox) so, i want to save and recovery from a filesystem.

I can't use GAE, nor other web server (like tomcat) but i'm sure that my requeriment can be satisfied if i resolve this configuration; and i suppose that the configuration can works in a embebbed jetty(GWT included) and a regular jetty server.
Can you give a hand?
Thanks in advance.

[Thomas Broyer]

getModuleBaseURL returns the "folder" where the *.nocache.js lives. You probably need getHostPageBaseURL, which is the "folder" in which your HTML page (which loads the *.nocache.js file) lives.

Also, those methods return a value that ends in "/", so you don't need to append "/" to it: GWT.getHostPageBaseURL() + "folder_name_of_static_resources/the_image.jpg"

[Natanael Maldonado]

Ok, you're right in :

 You probably need getHostPageBaseURL, which is the "folder" in which your HTML page (which loads the *.nocache.js file) lives.

And:

Also, those methods return a value that ends in "/", so you don't need to append "/" to it: GWT.getHostPageBaseURL() + "folder_name_of_static_resources/the_image.jpg"

BUT, it still does not works:

Code:

DivElement outerSpaceImage = DOM.getElementById("outerSpaceImage").cast();

Element img = DOM.createImg();

img.setAttribute("src", GWT.getHostPageBaseURL()+"folder_name_of_the_static_resources/image/the_image.jpg");

outerSpaceImage.appendChild(img);

XML (modified):

<Configure id="sample" class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">

<Array id="plusConfig" type="java.lang.String">

<Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration</Item>

<Item>org.mortbay.jetty.plus.webapp.EnvConfiguration</Item>

<Item>org.mortbay.jetty.plus.webapp.Configuration</Item>

<Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.JettyWebXmlConfiguration</Item>

</Array>

<New id="handler" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler">

<Set name="contextPath">/folder_name_of_the_static_resources</Set>

<Set name="resourceBase">/real/filesystem/path/to/static/resources/</Set>

<Set name="handler">

<New class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ResourceHandler">

<Set name="cacheControl">max-age=3600,public</Set>

</New>

</Set>

</New>

</Configure>

Error:

[WARN] 404 - GET /folder_name_of_static_resources/image/the_image.jpg (127.0.0.1) 1436 bytes

   Request headers

      Host: 127.0.0.1:8888

      Connection: keep-alive

      Accept: image/webp,*/*;q=0.8

      User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57 Safari/537.36

      Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8888/the_index.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997

      Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch

      Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8

      Cookie: JSESSIONID=1fgoy48j2k9md

   Response headers

      Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

      Content-Length: 1436

So, same error is present =(