Metacat

		<key>application.documentfilepath</key>

		<label>Document File Path</label>

		<group>3</group>

		<index>8</index>

		<description>

			Where to store metadata documents. This should be some location

			outside the knb install direcories.

		</description>

		<helpFile>properties.html#application.documentfilepath</helpFile>

	</config>

	<config>

		<index>9</index>

application.documentfilepath=/var/metacat/documents

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileWriter;

import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.service.DatabaseService;

            DatabaseService databaseService = DatabaseService.getInstance();

            logMetacat.debug("DatabaseService singleton created " + databaseService);

    	String documentDir = PropertyService.getProperty("application.documentfilepath");

                    // Try to get the metadata file from disk. If it isn't

					// found, create it from the

					// db and write it to disk then.

					String documentPath = documentDir + FileUtil.getFS() + docid;

					try {

						if (FileUtil.getFileStatus(documentPath) == FileUtil.DOES_NOT_EXIST) {

							FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(documentPath);

							doc.toXml(fileWriter, user, groups, withInlineData);

						}

						FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(documentPath);

						BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fileReader);

						PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(streamOut);

						String nextLine;

						while ((nextLine = br.readLine()) != null) {

							pw.println(nextLine);

						}

						pw.flush();					

					} catch (Exception e) {

						// any exceptions in reading the xml from disc, and we go back to the

						// old way of creating the xml directly.

						logMetacat.error("could not read from document file " + documentPath 

								+ ": " + e.getMessage());

						PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(streamOut);

						doc.toXml(out, user, groups, withInlineData);

					}

                    // write the document to the database and disk

                        // write the document to disk

						FileWriter fileWriter = null;

						try {

							String documentDir = 

								PropertyService.getProperty("application.documentfilepath");

							String documentPath = documentDir + FileUtil.getFS() + accNumber;

							if (accNumber != null

									&& FileUtil.getFileStatus(documentPath) == FileUtil.DOES_NOT_EXIST) {

								fileWriter = new FileWriter(documentPath);

								fileWriter.write(doctext[0]);

							}

						} catch (IOException ioe) {

							logMetacat.error("Did not write " + accNumber

									+ " to file system: " + ioe.getMessage());

						} finally {

							if (fileWriter != null) {

								fileWriter.close();

							}

						}

                      // MCD this seems a bit dubious, since many things can throw npe

  </div>  

  <a name="application.documentfilepath"></a><h1 class="property-main"> application.documentfilepath </h1>

  <div class="property-description-line">

    <h2 class="property-inline"> Default Value: </h2> 

    <p class="property-text">/var/metacat/documents</p>

  </div>

  <div class="property-description-line">

    <h2 class="property-inline"> Set Method: </h2> 

    <p class="property-text">Configuration Utility</p>

  </div>

  <div class="property-description-line">

    <h2 class="property-inline"> Description: </h2> 

    <p class="property-text">This is the directory where metadata document files will 

      be stored.  This should be some directory outside the Metacat installation 

      directories so document files will not get lost when Metacat is upgraded.  For 

      clarity of organization, this should probably not be the same as application.datafilepath

      or application.inlinedatafilepath. The data file directory must be writable by the 

      user that starts Tomcat (and thus Metacat).</p>

  </div>

  <div class="property-description-line">

    <h2 class="property-inline"> Example: </h2> 

    <p class="property-text">/var/metacat/documents</p>

  </div>