I am trying to use ClassLoader getResourceAsStream()
My Direcory structure is like below:
Project1
-src
-main
-java
-webapp
-WEB-INF
-MYLOC
-someprops.properties
For classloader.getResourceAsStream("MYLOC/someprops.properties")
works fine.
But now I have to move the properties file outside of the .war, like in C:\someprops.properties
But, classloader.getResourceAsStream("C:\someprops.properties")
does not work.
Can it not use an absolute path?
If you have a native file path then you don't need to use getResourceAsStream
, just create a FileInputStream
in the normal way.
Properties props = new Properties();
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("C:\\someprops.properties");
try {
props.load(in);
} finally {
in.close();
}
(you may want to wrap the FileInputStream
in a BufferedInputStream
if the file is large)
The method classloader.getResourceAsStream
looks up resources on the classpath. If you want to load your someprops.properties
file with classloader.getResourceAsStream
then add it to your classpath. Otherwise, if this is a properties file, you could always use the Properties.load method.