Re: [jetty-user] Best way to serve resources from arbitrary location?

Don't subclass it, just look at the javadoc.xml example in the
contexts directory of the distribution.

set a context for it and point the resourceBase at the directory you
want to serve out

cheers,
jesse

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jesse mcconnell
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 15:22, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/18/2011 2:51 PM, Steve Sobol wrote:
>>
>> This should be an FAQ...
>>
>> Chris wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been struggling with how best to do this. I could just implement
>>> all the rules in a servlet or servlet filter, and write each file
>>> directly to the response object, but then I lose the benefit of all the
>>> things that the default Jetty handlers do, like deal with compressed
>>> files, caching, setting content length, deal with HEAD requests, etc..
>>>
>>> I don't want to reinvent the wheel. What, in general, is the best way to
>>> get Jetty's default resource serving mechanism to load resources from
>>> arbitrary locations?
>>
>>
>> Create a ResourceHandler, maybe?
>>
>>
>> http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-7/apidocs/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ResourceHandler.html
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/jetty7resourcehandler
>
> Ok. I presume that I subclass it and override appropriate methods, like
> getResource(). I can do that.
>
> It looks like all the other functionality I'd like to preserve, though, is
> in DefaultServlet. How do I get DefaultServlet to use my new
> ResourceHandler? I do not see an init param for it.
>
> Or maybe there's another mechanism in web.xml to get Jetty to use it?
>
>
>
>
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