I have a maven Project say ProjectA, and there is a class say ClassA in this project which uses the files from resource folder, I am using following way to read from resource:
String fileName = IPToGeoMapper.class.getResource("/resourceFile.txt").getFile();
File resourceFile = new File(fileName);
and it works like charm.
Now, when I create artifact out of this project (I have tried extracting the created jar and it has resourceFile.txt packed in the jar), and use that as a dependency in other project say ProjectB, ClassA no more finds the resourceFile.txt as it tries to browse though resources folder of ProjectB.
I want the best global solution which will work in all the projects where I import artifact created from ProjectA What is the best way to handle this?
Try this way , I am taking an example of reading a property file.
Properties propfile = new Properties();
propfile.load(PropertyUtils.class.getClassLoader()
.getResourceAsStream(
"applicationprops.properties"));
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ClassA.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("file.txt")));
StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
out.append(line);
}
System.out.println(out.toString()); //Prints the string content read from input stream
reader.close();