Perfect, thank-you.
Gary
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 07:25:01PM -0400, Don Dietrick wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> If the jar file is in your classpath, you can just refer to the shape file by it's relative path inside the jar:
>
> shpFile=Zips/Zips.shp
>
>
> If the jar file is not in your classpath, I thought you could do something like this:
>
> shpFile=file://Zips.jar!/Zips/Zips.shp
>
> but I can't get that to work for me, now.
>
> So you can also use the com.bbn.openmap.util.ClasspathHacker class to add a jar to the classpath programmatically, and then just load the shp file through it's relative path.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Don
>
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Gary Briggs wrote:
>
> >
> > Is it possible to load shapefiles directly out of a jarfile?
> >
> > I'm using a ShapeLayer, and setting the "shapeFile" property to the path.
> >
> > I've tried a variety of combinations. For what it's worth, my data
> > are a shapefile for every zip code in the US, inside of a "Zips" directory.
> >
> > // This is the one I'm currently using
> > String fileNamePrefix = "Zips/" + zip;
> >
> > So then I just zipped it up, with the "Zips/" prefix inside the zipfile,
> > to "Zips.jar"
> >
> > // Neither of these have worked:
> > String fileNamePrefix = "jar:file:Zips.jar!/Zips/" + zip;
> > String fileNamePrefix = "jar:Zips.jar!/Zips/" + zip;
> >
> > Am I barking up the wrong tree?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gary
> >
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