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Suggestion for creating a new file in LiveSite

Channaveer

I need to know how to create a new file using FileDal interface or any other methods in Livesite.
I went through the FileDal manual and didn't find any method to create a new file. Only methods available for read and write into a file.

kindly need your suggestion ASAP.

Thanks in advance....

Herewith attaching my code snippet

FileDal file = context.getFileDal();
String filePath = file.getRoot();
String fileName = null;
try {
File f;
if (file.isDirectory(filePath)) {
fileName=userName.concat(".js");
filePath = filePath.concat("/").concat(fileName);
f = new File(filePath); //This Code is not working
if (!file.isFile(filePath)) {
f.createNewFile();
file.write("/scripts/", jsonObject);
}
}
}

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Channaveer

Hey can anyone help me on this one,.. Its really bugging

tec_iwov

Because of the abstraction of preview being in the teamsite store and runtime being on a native file system the dal hide the file implementation from you.

why wouldn't you just use the write (fileRelativePath, data)?

Channaveer

Because of the abstraction of preview being in the teamsite store and runtime being on a native file system the dal hide the file implementation from you.

why wouldn't you just use the write (fileRelativePath, data)?

I tried '.write' method also,but it doesn't work in Livesite.
I couldnt find any other method so that i can create a new file and write into it.
Kindly advice.
Thanks !

tec_iwov

by doesn't work can you elaborate.

Is it thowing an exception or it doesn't create the file?

how does it behave in Sitepub vs. Runtime?

Channaveer

My requirement is to create a new file in the folder international/main/web-sites/somefolder/WORKAREA/ALL/scripts/ and I used the method FileDal.write() for this. However the write method throws an exception saying 'Failed to write data' and does not create a new file.

If the file exists it is overwriting the contents in that file. However my requirment is to create a new file and then write into it.

Can you please help on this....

Thanks a lot for your response...

Adam Stoller

My requirement is to create a new file in the folder international/main/web-sites/somefolder/WORKAREA/ALL/scripts/ and I used the method FileDal.write() for this. However the write method throws an exception saying 'Failed to write data' and does not create a new file.

If the file exists it is overwriting the contents in that file. However my requirment is to create a new file and then write into it.

Can you please help on this....

Thanks a lot for your response...

I'm not entirely sure about this - but couldn't you use some standard Java I/O functions for creating the file? Perhaps at least for creating it as an empty file, and then using FileDal.write() to populate it if that performs other interwoven-specific functions?

Channaveer

Yes i used the Java I/O function to create a new file. As mentioned below in the code snippet at the line f.createNewFile() an exception is thrown saying 'No such File or Directory exists'.
Outside the team site im successfully able to use this method for creating file, but im not able to do it in team site.

Please help me out in this.

Thank You very much...

Adam Stoller

Yes i used the Java I/O function to create a new file. As mentioned below in the code snippet at the line f.createNewFile() an exception is thrown saying 'No such File or Directory exists'.
Outside the team site im successfully able to use this method for creating file, but im not able to do it in team site.

Please help me out in this.

Thank You very much...

I suggest you add debugging statements to your code to verify the value of

filePath

- it's possible that you aren't actually providing a valid file system path...

Channaveer

Yes i did added log statements and i got the path correctly. Since the path is correct im able to write into that file(already present file) successfully. The problem is only while creating the new file.

Please help on this.

Thank You

Adam Stoller

Yes i did added log statements and i got the path correctly. Since the path is correct im able to write into that file(already present file) successfully. The problem is only while creating the new file.

Please help on this.

Thank You

Since you haven't provided us the details of the actual path that's showing up in the debugging log, I have to ask: Is it a file system path or a vpath? If you're using CSSDK or SP/LS-specific classes to write into the file - those routines might accept the latter; but a standard I/O method would require the former.

Channaveer

Hi
Im giving the fully qualified path, the path is something like ,
/iwmnt/international/main/web-sites/****/WORKAREA/ALL/scripts/myfile.js
also tried with
/international/main/web-sites/****/WORKAREA/ALL/scripts/myfile.js.

Even then im getting exception while creating myfile.js.

Thanks !

tec_iwov

As i mentioned earlier you can't use standard IO in teamsite as your confined to a work area and have to use the FileDal to handle file creation.

There is a bug that if your path has non existant sub folders then the file will not be properly created.

If you use IO directly you must first call file.getParentFile().mkdirs().

But as i mentioned this won't work in preview.

cecilb63

NodeHelper.createFile(theWorkarea, new CSAreaRelativePath(somefile));

???

tec_iwov

that's an intenal API and unless your going to run your site from within Teamsite it will not work in runtime.

Again that's the reason for the FileDAL api. i suggest you contact support.

Channaveer

Thanks all for your suggestions.