How to make relative path for JasperReports

Question

I want to make relative path for my jasper reports but unsuccessful:

String REPORT="C:\\Users\\Muhammad Awais\\Documents\\NetBeansProjects\\BILLING\\src\\billing\\MyReports\\report.jrxml";
String rel="BILLING\\src\\billing\\MyReports\\report.jrxml";

Answer 1

You need to make use of the fact that current working directory is represented by . operator. In relative path, everything else is relative to it. Similar to

String relativePath=".\\BILLING\\src\\billing\\MyReports\\report.jrxml";

You can refer to the Java Path operations documentation here. You can also use toRealPath() to get the absolute path of a relative path.

The toRealPath method returns the real path of an existing file. This method performs several operations in one:

• If true is passed to this method and the file system supports symbolic links, this method resolves any symbolic links in the path.
  
• If the Path is relative, it returns an absolute path.
  
• If the Path contains any redundant elements, it returns a path with those elements removed.