How to really read text file from classpath in Jav

Question

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.

Answer 1

Please try

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

Your tries didn't work because only the class loader for your classes is able to load from the classpath. You used the class loader for the java system itself.

Answer 2

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ReadFile

{
    /**
     * * feel free to make any modification I have have been here so I feel you
     * * * @param args * @throws InterruptedException
     */

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        // thread pool of 10
        File dir = new File(".");
        // read file from same directory as source //
        if (dir.isDirectory()) {
            File[] files = dir.listFiles();
            for (File file : files) {
                // if you wanna read file name with txt files
                if (file.getName().contains("txt")) {
                    System.out.println(file.getName());
                }

                // if you want to open text file and read each line then
                if (file.getName().contains("txt")) {
                    try {
                        // FileReader reads text files in the default encoding.
                        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(
                                file.getAbsolutePath());
                        // Always wrap FileReader in BufferedReader.
                        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(
                                fileReader);
                        String line;
                        // get file details and get info you need.
                        while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                            System.out.println(line);
                            // here you can say...
                            // System.out.println(line.substring(0, 10)); this
                            // prints from 0 to 10 indext
                        }
                    } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
                        System.out.println("Unable to open file '"
                                + file.getName() + "'");
                    } catch (IOException ex) {
                        System.out.println("Error reading file '"
                                + file.getName() + "'");
                        // Or we could just do this:
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            }
        }

    }

}

Answer 3

To get the class absolute path try this:

String url = this.getClass().getResource("").getPath();

Answer 4

I am using webshpere application server and my Web Module is build on Spring MVC. The Test.properties were located in the resources folder, i tried to load this files using the following:

1. this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("Test.properties");
2. this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/Test.properties");

None of the above code loaded the file.

But with the help of below code the property file was loaded successfully:

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("Test.properties");

Thanks to the user "user1695166".