Re: [Httpunit-develop] Accessing web.xml from u nit tests? getResourceAsStream…

On Apr 14, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Gordon Henriksen wrote:

> We're using Eclipse and Maven. I've got some unit tests for a web  
> application (war packaging), and I'd like to pull in web.xml for  
> servletunit. I was being really deeply and exceedingly lazy and using:
>
>     new ServletRunner(new File("./src/webapp/web.xml"), "/context");
>
> This smacks of ‘the wrong way to do it’ to me, but it was  
> sufficient for the task at hand.

If there is a better way, it might be to define a system property  
that gives you the base path. That would work no matter where you run  
from.

>
> And it worked fine under Eclipse, but then I went to mvn test  
> before committing; to my disappointment, Maven runs the unit tests  
> relative to the parent pom, more often than not, so I can't use a  
> relative path. After some research I tried this instead:
>
>     new ServletRunner(Thread.getContextClassLoader 
> ().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/web.xml"), "/context");

That shouldn't work since the path /WEB-INF is probably not in your  
class path. You need something that is in your class path and that  
has a known relationship to the location of your WEB-INF directory.   
If you don't want to use the system property route, if you tell me  
your directory and classpath setup, I may be able to suggest an  
alternative.