How to really read text file from classpath in Java

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I am trying to read a text file which is set in CLASSPATH system variable. Not a user variable.

I am trying to get input stream to the file as below:

Place the directory of file (D:\myDir)in CLASSPATH and try below:

InputStream in = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("SomeTextFile.txt");
InputStream in = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/SomeTextFile.txt");
InputStream in = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("//SomeTextFile.txt");

Place full path of file (D:\myDir\SomeTextFile.txt)in CLASSPATH and try the same above 3 lines of code.

But unfortunately NONE of them are working and I am always getting null into my InputStream in.

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17 Answers

My answer is not exactly what is asked in the question. Rather I am giving a solution exactly how easily we can read a file into out java application from our project class path.

For example suppose a config file name example.xml is located in a path like below:-

com.myproject.config.dev

and our java executable class file is in the below path:-

com.myproject.server.main

now just check in both the above path which is the nearest common directory/folder from where you can access both dev and main directory/folder (com.myproject.server.main - where our application’s java executable class is existed) – We can see that it is myproject folder/directory which is the nearest common directory/folder from where we can access our example.xml file. Therefore from a java executable class resides in folder/directory main we have to go back two steps like ../../ to access myproject. Now following this, see how we can read the file:-

package com.myproject.server.main;

class Example {

  File xmlFile;

  public Example(){
       String filePath = this.getClass().getResource("../../config/dev/example.xml").getPath();
       this.xmlFile = new File(filePath);
    }

  public File getXMLFile() {
      return this.xmlFile;
  }
   public static void main(String args[]){
      Example ex = new Example();
      File xmlFile = ex.getXMLFile();
   }
}
user_84058350

If you compile your project in jar file: you can put your file in resources/files/your_file.text or pdf;

and use this code: 

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import java.io.*;

public class readFileService(){
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(readFileService.class);


    public byte[] getFile(){
        String filePath="/files/your_file";
        InputStream inputStreamFile;
        byte[] bytes;
        try{
            inputStreamFile = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(filePath);
            bytes = new byte[inputStreamFile.available()];
            inputStreamFile.read(bytes);    
        } catch(NullPointerException | IOException e) {
            LOGGER.error("Erreur read file "+filePath+" error message :" +e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }
        return bytes;
    } 
}
user_105424080

Use org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("src/test/resources/sample-data/fileName.txt"));

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