How do I get the path to the images/icons folder?

[Barry Britnell]

I'm trying to get the path to the "images/icons" folder. In my development environment, it is in /jira/webapp/images/icons folder, but that will obviously not be the path in Production. Is there a way through the API to dynamically find this path?

Thanks!

[Thuan M. Tu]

Images are stored in your install directory under atlassian-jira

{jira-install}/atlassian-jira/images/icons

[MattS]

See http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Adding+Plugin+and+Module+Resources about the relative location. I see two cases when I'm referring to an image resource in a .vm file. Usually:

<img src="${req.getContextPath()}/download/resources/com.consultingtoolsmiths.jira.plugins.templatehelper:templatehelper-resources/new_blink"

But in a gadget I have to use

<img src="../../../download/resources/com.consultingtoolsmiths.jira.plugins.templatehelper:templatehelper-resources/new_blink"

Hope this helps,

~Matt

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

In most cases, you can just use /images/icons. The resource is declared like that and so it doesn't matter what folder structure sits above it.

[Barry Britnell]

Thanks. I've actually tried that...along with some other things, with no luck. I'm still trying, so if you have any other ideas, I would appreciate it.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Are you adding your own image files? If so, you can add it as a resource in the plugin.

[Barry Britnell]

No, I'm not. I'm just trying to get access to the icons that come loaded in JIRA by default.

For instance, the development environment path is: /webapp/images/icons.

But, in production, it will be something like: /jira/atlassian-jira-4.3/atlassian-jira/images/icons.

How do I get the "/jira/atlassian-jira-4.3/atlassian-jira" part of the URL?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Ok. If you accessing from a jsp, you can do it as follows:

<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/icons/your_image.png" alt="" title="Some title">

Basically, you invoke it using the context path in the front.

[Barry Britnell]

Yes, I tried that. Actually, it's coming from Java code, not necessarily a JSP. My code looked like this:

String iconDirectory = JiraWebUtils.getHttpRequest().getContextPath() + File.separator + "images" + File.separator + "icons";

File iconFile = new File(iconDirectory);

String files[] = iconFile.listFiles();

But, that just gave me "/jira/images/icons" which was not what I needed.

I appreciate your comments.

[JamieA]

You should be able to read the system property catalina.base and append the rest. Difficult to see why you need this in code though...?

[JamieA]

ie: System.getProperty("catalina.base")

I'm assuming tomcat, for other app servers it will be something different, but same principal.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

or try ActionContext.getContext().getRequestImpl().getContextPath() ?