I’m trying to import the content of a .json file and run it in a Docker container, but I get next error when run the docker container:
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/stockalert-app/./app/main.py", line 22, in <module>
main()
File "/stockalert-app/./app/main.py", line 17, in main
data = importData('data.json')
File "/stockalert-app/./app/main.py", line 10, in importData
with open(fileName) as json_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data.json'
This is my project structure:
├── stockalert
├── app
│ ├── main.py
│ ├── data.json
├── requirements.txt
├── Dockerfile
main.py
import json
def importData(fileName):
with open(fileName) as json_file:
data = json.load(json_file)
return data
def main():
data = importData('data.json')
print("Data: ")
print(data)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Dockerfile
FROM python:3
WORKDIR /stockalert-app
COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
COPY ./app ./app
CMD [ "python", "./app/main.py" ]
I understand that I´m doing something wrong but I don´t know that, the code runs well on the host machine, but when runs into a container not, so the question is: Which is the correct way to do it?.
2
Answers
With this Dockerfile instruction
WORKDIR /stockalert-app
, you’re setting the working directory to/stockalert-app
. This means that when you copy theapp
directory, the absolute path to the json file will be/stockalert-app/app/data.json
.You have two solutions:
WORKDIR /app
importData('/app/data.json')
(or even better,importData('/stockalert-app/app/data.json'
)Your
PWD
is/stockalert-app
and your json file is/stockalert-app/app/data.json
.