How to load all files of a folder to a list of Resources in Spring?

Question

I have a folder and want to load all txt files to a list using Spring and wildcards:

By annotation I could do the following:

@Value("classpath*:../../dir/*.txt") private Resource[] files; 

But how can I achieve the same using spring programmatically?

Answer 1

Use ResourceLoader and ResourcePatternUtils:

class Foobar {     private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;      @Autowired     public Foobar(ResourceLoader resourceLoader) {         this.resourceLoader = resourceLoader;     }      Resource[] loadResources(String pattern) throws IOException {         return ResourcePatternUtils.getResourcePatternResolver(resourceLoader).getResources(pattern);     } } 

and use it like:

Resource[] resources = foobar.loadResources("classpath*:../../dir/*.txt");