How do you display images relative to a Portlet JSP page?

Question

For Welblogic Portal 7.0, I want to display a simple image (.gif) on a JSP page.
The problem is that I need to use a 'hard coded' url to the image such as the following:
<img src="portlets/test/images/test.gif" border="0" alt="Test 1">
- OR -
<img src="<webflow:createResourceURL resource="/portlets/test/images/test.gif" />"
border="0" alt="Test 2">
This makes the portlet less portable.
My goal is to display an image relative to the current JSP Portlet page (in the test
directory).
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
In WL Portal 4.0 I used:
<img src="<%=fixupRelativeURL(pathFromRequest(request) + "images/test.gif", request)%>"
width=24 height=22 border=0 alt="test">
This does not work anymore as fixupRelativeURL does not seem to exist in the 7.0
API.
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

Exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you Subbu.
Subbu Allamaraju <subbuATBeaDOTCom> wrote:
Matt,
There is an indirect way to achieve this.
(a) In your portlet JSP, get the PortletState. There is an example in
/framework/portlet.jsp.
(b) Get the content URL for this portlet by calling
portletState.getUrl(Portlet.URL_CONTENT).
Depending on where your image is (with respect to the content URL), you
can construct a new URL to the image. For example if your content is at
at /portlets/myportlet/foo.jsp and your image is in at
/portlets/myportlet/images/myimage.gif, you can reconctruct the latter
from the first one.
Once you do this, prepend the constructed URL with the web app context
root (request.getContextPath()).
Hope this helps.
Subbu
matt wrote:
For Welblogic Portal 7.0, I want to display a simple image (.gif) on aJSP page.
The problem is that I need to use a 'hard coded' url to the image suchas the following:
<img src="portlets/test/images/test.gif" border="0" alt="Test 1">
- OR -
<img src="<webflow:createResourceURL resource="/portlets/test/images/test.gif"/>"
border="0" alt="Test 2">
This makes the portlet less portable.
My goal is to display an image relative to the current JSP Portlet page(in the test
directory).
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
In WL Portal 4.0 I used:
<img src="<%=fixupRelativeURL(pathFromRequest(request) + "images/test.gif",request)%>"
width=24 height=22 border=0 alt="test">
This does not work anymore as fixupRelativeURL does not seem to existin the 7.0
API.
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt