Re: quick question

• To: Nelson Brandon K A1C AFWA/SCSA <brandon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: quick question
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:21:06 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Nelson Brandon K A1C AFWA/SCSA wrote:

> Robb,
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>             Is there anyway to use an http URL as the file source when
> making the random access file?

Nelson,

yes, i also attached the HTTPRandomAccessFile3 file and the tomcat lib
that's needed.


    if (uriString.startsWith("http:")) { // open through URL
      raf = new ucar.unidata.io.http.HTTPRandomAccessFile3(uriString);

robb...
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> Ex:
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>         Grib1Indexer g1d = new Grib1Indexer();
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>         //RandomAccessFile for faster reading of the index file
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> ===>RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(gribFile, "r");
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>         raf.order(RandomAccessFile.BIG_ENDIAN);
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>         //File stream for writing of the index file
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>         PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(new FilterOutputStream(
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>                 new FileOutputStream(outfile, false)));
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>         //Writes the index file
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>         g1d.writeFileIndex(raf, ps, false);
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>         } catch (Exception e) {
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>             e.printStackTrace();
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>         }
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> V/r
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> A1C Nelson, Brandon K
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> Communications-Computer Systems Programmer
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> HQ AFWA/SCSA (402) 294-1404
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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