Usage of Tomahawk SourceCodeServlet

[Shasi Mitra]

Can anyone tell me why do we use org.apache.myfaces.shared_tomahawk.util.servlet.SourceCodeServlet? Is it mandatory?

[Rahul Santha]

Don't know.

But it is not a mandatory, unless you are trying to use the tomahawk library.

[Shasi Mitra]

I'm using many of the tomahawk's compnonents..i read somewhere that we have to configure the source code servlet..but m not sure why..can anyone tell me..

[Pari Gandhi]

The SourceCodeServlet is used to serve the source code (jsp) as a html page.


For Example : http://www.irian.at/myfacesexamples/masterDetail.jsp.source

This is what the servlet does:- (Nothing fancy)

 public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
        throws IOException, ServletException
    {
        String webPage = req.getServletPath();
        
        // remove the '*.source' suffix that maps to this servlet
        int chopPoint = webPage.indexOf(".source");
        
        webPage = webPage.substring(0, chopPoint - 1);
        webPage += "p"; // replace jsf with jsp
        
        // get the actual file location of the requested resource
        String realPath = getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRealPath(webPage);

        // output an HTML page
        res.setContentType("text/plain");

        // print some html
        ServletOutputStream out = res.getOutputStream();

        // print the file
        InputStream in = null;
        try 
        {
            in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(realPath));
            int ch;
            while ((ch = in.read()) !=-1) 
            {
                out.print((char)ch);
            }
        }
        finally {
            if (in != null) in.close();  // very important
        }
    }