eyelight93
Hi, I’m having an issue with the Path.absname/1 function.
The function will return the absolute path of current umbrella app. Let’s say I have two app in an umbrella project called app1 and app2.
Path.absname(“something”) will return different result based on where I called it.
So how do I always get the result some_path/umbrella/apps/app1/something even if I called the function inside app2?
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NobbZ
In theory it should be resolved relative to your current working dir, so I’m wondering why you get your apps in there…
hauleth
Just in case, remember that
Path.absname/1will not work as expected in releases. Use:code.priv_dir/1or:code.get_path/0.NobbZ
It will work exactly as expected, it will resolve the absolute name relative to the working dir, and it will fail if there is no working dir.
If though you don’t know about your current working dir, or how it affects started applications, then of course
Path.absname/1will always fail for you.Kurisu
Maybe could you try
Application.app_dir/2?Application.app_dir(:app1, "something")should always returnsome_path/umbrella/apps/app1/somethingeven if you call it from app2.LostKobrakai
It does not.
Application.app_dirdoes internally also just use:codeapi and those point to the files in the_builddirectory and not the source directory.