How can I access a folder inside of a resource folder from inside my jar File?

Question

Finally, I found the solution:

final String path = "sample/folder";
final File jarFile = new File(getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath());

if(jarFile.isFile()) {  // Run with JAR file
    final JarFile jar = new JarFile(jarFile);
    final Enumeration<JarEntry> entries = jar.entries(); //gives ALL entries in jar
    while(entries.hasMoreElements()) {
        final String name = entries.nextElement().getName();
        if (name.startsWith(path + "/")) { //filter according to the path
            System.out.println(name);
        }
    }
    jar.close();
} else { // Run with IDE
    final URL url = Launcher.class.getResource("/" + path);
    if (url != null) {
        try {
            final File apps = new File(url.toURI());
            for (File app : apps.listFiles()) {
                System.out.println(app);
            }
        } catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
            // never happens
        }
    }
}

The second block just work when you run the application on IDE (not with jar file), You can remove it if you don't like that.

Try the following.
Make the resource path "<PathRelativeToThisClassFile>/<ResourceDirectory>" E.g. if your class path is com.abc.package.MyClass and your resoure files are within src/com/abc/package/resources/:

URL url = MyClass.class.getResource("resources/");
if (url == null) {
     // error - missing folder
} else {
    File dir = new File(url.toURI());
    for (File nextFile : dir.listFiles()) {
        // Do something with nextFile
    }
}

You can also use

URL url = MyClass.class.getResource("/com/abc/package/resources/");

I know this is many years ago . But just for other people come across this topic. What you could do is to use getResourceAsStream() method with the directory path, and the input Stream will have all the files name from that dir. After that you can concat the dir path with each file name and call getResourceAsStream for each file in a loop.

I had the same problem at hands while i was attempting to load some hadoop configurations from resources packed in the jar... on both the IDE and on jar (release version).

I found java.nio.file.DirectoryStream to work the best to iterate over directory contents over both local filesystem and jar.

String fooFolder = "/foo/folder";
....

ClassLoader classLoader = foofClass.class.getClassLoader();
try {
    uri = classLoader.getResource(fooFolder).toURI();
} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
    throw new FooException(e.getMessage());
} catch (NullPointerException e){
    throw new FooException(e.getMessage());
}

if(uri == null){
    throw new FooException("something is wrong directory or files missing");
}

/** i want to know if i am inside the jar or working on the IDE*/
if(uri.getScheme().contains("jar")){
    /** jar case */
    try{
        URL jar = FooClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation();
        //jar.toString() begins with file:
        //i want to trim it out...
        Path jarFile = Paths.get(jar.toString().substring("file:".length()));
        FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(jarFile, null);
        DirectoryStream<Path> directoryStream = Files.newDirectoryStream(fs.getPath(fooFolder));
        for(Path p: directoryStream){
            InputStream is = FooClass.class.getResourceAsStream(p.toString()) ;
        performFooOverInputStream(is);
        /** your logic here **/
            }
    }catch(IOException e) {
        throw new FooException(e.getMessage());     
    }
}
else{
    /** IDE case */
    Path path = Paths.get(uri);
    try {
        DirectoryStream<Path> directoryStream = Files.newDirectoryStream(path);
        for(Path p : directoryStream){
            InputStream is = new FileInputStream(p.toFile());
            performFooOverInputStream(is);
        }
    } catch (IOException _e) {
        throw new FooException(_e.getMessage());
    }
}

The following code returns the wanted "folder" as Path regardless of if it is inside a jar or not.

  private Path getFolderPath() throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
    URI uri = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("folder").toURI();
    if ("jar".equals(uri.getScheme())) {
      FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, Collections.emptyMap(), null);
      return fileSystem.getPath("path/to/folder/inside/jar");
    } else {
      return Paths.get(uri);
    }
  }

Requires java 7+.