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Different URL for development and production. (Reloading static content)

So here is my story.

I am developing a spring web application. The reloading of static content (js, css, jsp) was broken and found a solution in the following thread:

Getting resources in VFrabric Server to deploy without causing container to reload

In order for reloading to work I couldn't have the root URL '/'. So I change that to '/project' and my reloading works. Great!

But then comes the next problem. I have a lot ajax requests to '/typeahead/searchUniversities/%QUERY' for example, this would need to be changed to 'project/typeahead/searchUniversities/%QUERY'. And when I upload it to the production server I would need to change it back to '/typeahead/searchUniversities/%QUERY'

Since '/project' is just for development

So the I read about profiles but I'm not sure if this is the way to go. I might overdoing it?

I was also thinking of having something like '${baseurl}/typeahead/searchUniversities/%QUERY' and then just change in one place before production. But not sure how to do this.

If someone could guide me with an example of how to do this it would be great.

Thank you!

Solution

  • Edit : add another more direct way to get the context path in a JSP

    The url should never be static in the webapp : the context path is determined at deployment time and not at compile time. If you are using spring tag library, you can make use of <spring:url> tag, if not of the JSTL <c:url> tag. Both will automatically add the context path for you.

    BTW : in a JSP <%= application.getContextPath() %> gives the context path without any additional taglib.

    But please only use relative paths where it has sense and never for "top level" URLs.