Can't import another Spring configuration file

[Liu Yongjian]

When I start the Play! application , it complains as follows:

An unexpected error occured caused by exception BeanDefinitionParsingException:
Configuration problem: Invalid relative resource location [sub/spring-context.xml] to import bean definitions from Offending resource: resource loaded through SAX InputSource; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Cannot create a relative resource for resource loaded through SAX InputSource

[Guillaume Bort]

You can probably use the ${play.path} placeholder to define an
absolute resource path.

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[Liu Yongjian]

${play.path}  refers to the absolute path of Play! framework
we need to specifiy the absolute path of Play! Application

[Guillaume Bort]

Ah yes, so ${application.path}

[Liu Yongjian]

Here is my examples:

Suppose I define two Spring configuration file,  one is ${myapp.path}/conf/application-context.xml and the other is ${myapp.path}/conf/finportfolio/spring-context.xml

Now I want to import spring-context.xml into application-context.xml, so I put a statement in application-context.xml :

// application-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">

    <import resource="finportfolio/spring-context.xml"/>

  ....
</beans>



However, when I start the Play! application, it complains :

An unexpected error occured caused by exception BeanDefinitionParsingException:
Configuration problem: Invalid relative resource location [sub/spring-context.xml] to import bean definitions from Offending resource: resource loaded through SAX InputSource; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Cannot create a relative resource for resource loaded through SAX InputSource

How to define an  absolute resource path for spring-context.xml???

[Liu Yongjian]

Let me try

[Liu Yongjian]

Hi Bort

 <import resource="${application.path}/finportfolio/spring-context.xml"/>   doesn't work properly. It prints the same error

[Liu Yongjian]

Any solution ?

[Oded Peer]

You should mark your imported resource as a file resource.
I tried it in my server and it works fine:

<import resource="file:/${application.path}/conf/fin/spring-
context.xml"/>

Nicolas, this should also be added to the Spring plugin documentation

[Nicolas Leroux]

Thanks, yes this is true. I will as soon as I have 5 minutes. If someone wants to help, please contact me ;)

Nicolas