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I'm trying to build an application that builds a resource file into a jar, but I'd like to have the project runnable within eclipse. I have a basic maven 2 structure for my project, and I'm unsure how to read in the file such that it's found and used when run from the JAR or from within eclipse. Thought?
Structure:
src/main/java
src/main/resources/file.txt
Current reading method:
getClass().getResourceAsStream("/file.txt")
Is there reading method that will pick up src/main/resources/*, as well as the root level of the JAR (where resources are deployed)?
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To check our CLASSPATH on Windows we can open a command prompt and type echo %CLASSPATH%. To check it on a Mac you need to open a terminal and type echo $CLASSPATH.
We can either load the file(present in resources folder) as inputstream or URL format and then perform operations on them. So basically two methods named: getResource() and getResourceAsStream() are used to load the resources from the classpath. These methods generally return the URL's and input streams respectively.
I don't understand your problem. Resources from src/main/resources are automatically copied over to target/classes and are thus available on the classpath under Maven and Eclipse relatively to the root level at the same location (unless your Eclipse project is not properly configured).
And when packaged inside a JAR, the content of target/classes is packaged "as is" so nothing is changed.
In other words, accessing your file.txt like this is perfectly fine (and this is actually how things are documented):
// Retrieve resource
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream( "/file.txt" );
// Do something with the resource
...
If you have a problem somewhere, please clarify.
Update: I did a quick test with the maven-eclipse-plugin and I can't reproduce your problem:
$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.stackoverflow -DartifactId=q2467362 -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT
...
$ cd q2467362
$ mkdir -p src/main/resources
$ mvn eclipse:eclipse
...
$ cat .classpath
<classpath>
<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes" including="**/*.java"/>
<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/resources" excluding="**/*.java"/>
<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
<classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1-sources.jar"/>
<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
</classpath>
The directory src/main/resources is added as source folder as expected. Can you show your POM (especially the resources element if you define one)?
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