No access to Bundle Resource/File (OSGi)

Question

at the moment i'm developing an OSGi based WebApp with Jetty and Equinox (see: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/EclipseRT-Jetty-Starter-Kit). Everything ist fine so far but i can't get access to some files/resources of my own bundle. The location/path is "configuration/data/config.csv" and "configuration/data/data.zip". I have tested everything:

context.getBundleContext().getBundle().getEntry("config.csv");
context.getBundleContext().getBundle().getResource("config.csv");
this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("config.csv");
context.getBundleContext().getDataFile("config.csv");

And of course all possible path variants like: "configuration/data/config.csv", "/configuration/data/config.csv", "\configuration/data/config.csv", "/config.csv". Moreover i have added the folders to the OSGi classpath (in MANIFEST.MF):

Bundle-ClassPath: .,
 configuration/data/

The resulting URL looks always somthing like this (or null): "configuration/CBR-Data/config.csv" and when i transfer it to an File object "D:\configuration\CBR-Data\config.csv".

But what i really don't understand is that the properties file for one of my DS is loaded perfectly:
<properties entry="configuration/dsconfig.properties"/>

Has someone an idea/tip or something else? I'm driving crazy...

Answer 1

You are correctly retrieving the resource from the bundle. I'll suggest to get familiar with the difference between getEntry(), getResource() and getDataFile().

Because methods returns you correct URLs, this means that the resource are correctly located and the problem is in how you read them.

The two ways to use them are:

1. Open InputStream from the URL directly:

    URL configURL = context.getBundleContext().getBundle().getEntry("configuration/data/config.csv");
    if (configURL != null) {
        InputStream input = configUrl.openStream();
        try {
            // process your input here or in separate method
        } finally {
            input.close();
        }
    }
   

1. Convert the URL to File. This approach is not recommended, because it makes the assumption that the Bundle is deployed as directory (and not in archive). It is however helpful if you must deal with legacy libraries which requires you to use File objects. To convert to File you cannot use URL.getPath() method, because Equinox has its own format for the URLs. You should use org.eclipse.core.runtime.FileLocator class to resolve to a File. The FileLocator.getBundleFile(Bundle) does exactly what you want.