Get an absolute path in a resource generated by a Maven archetype

Question

I am trying to get the absolute path of a resource generate by an archetype.

https://github.com/DigitalPebble/storm-crawler/blob/master/external/elasticsearch/archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/es-crawler.flux#L25

I tried to replace the line above with

"${project.basedir}"
"${project.build.directory}"
"${basedir}"
"${outputDirectoryFile}"
"${outputDirectoryFile}/${artifactId}"
"${basedir}/${artifactId}"

but none of these worked. The furthest I got was to get the /${artifactId} part right.

The file is listed as filtered in archetype-metadata.xml

Is there a variable I can use to get the absolute path of the directory generated?

user_14212394 · Answer

Try This:

URL res = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("abc.txt");
File file = Paths.get(res.toURI()).toFile();
String absolutePath = file.getAbsolutePath();

Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17351116/14212394

Get an absolute path in a resource generated by a Maven archetype

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