I've exported my Java console application to a Jar file, but when I run the jar and call code that parses in a JSON file I get a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Does anyone know why the exception is being thrown when I run the program as a JAR? The parsing works fine when the application is run from Eclipse.
This is the exact error that is output when I execute the jar file and call the code that parses the JSON file:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not hierar
chical
at java.io.File.<init>(Unknown Source)
at gmit.GameParser.parse(GameParser.java:44)
at gmit.Main.main(Main.java:28)
This is how the parsing is being done in my GameParser class:
public class GameParser {
private static final String GAME_FILE = "/resources/game.json";
private URL sourceURL = getClass().getResource(GAME_FILE);
private int locationId;
private List<Location> locations;
private List<Item> items;
private List<Character> characters;
public void parse() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
try {
// read from file, convert it to Location class
Location loc = new Location();
loc = mapper.readValue(new File(sourceURL.toURI()), Location.class);
Item item = mapper.readValue(new File(sourceURL.toURI()), Item.class);
GameCharacter character = mapper.readValue(new File(sourceURL.toURI()), GameCharacter.class);
// display to console
System.out.println(loc.toString());
System.out.println(item.toString());
System.out.println(character.toString());
} catch (JsonGenerationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (JsonMappingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
This is the folder structure of my project: