I'm trying to make it so that in config/app.properties, I can have:
myfile.location=./myfile
where . is relative to said properties file. Is this possible ? I tried:
resourceLoader.getResource(appConfig.getMyFileLocation());
where resourceLoader and appConfig are autowired, but it won't work.
Java properties are key-value pairs. So when you specify myfile.location=./myfile, this means appConfig.getMyFileLocation() will return './myfile' which is not the correct location.
As a workaround, you can get the location of the properties file and then use it along with the relative location to find the absolute path.
File propertyFileDirectory = .... // get the property file directory
String myfilePath = appConfig.getMyFileLocation();
File file = new File(propertyFileDirectory, myfilePath);
I usually reference my files like this:
myfile.location=classpath:myfile
where myfile is at the same location as the properties file.