Question

i have a maven module BaseProject with java classes in src/main/java. Some classes are loading xml-files from the src/main/resource folder.
That works pretty nice.

I have a second maven project TestProject that has uses the BaseProject as dependency.
TestProject is my JUnit test project, so there are classes only in src/test/java.

If I use some of the classes from the BaseProject that load any resource I get a null because the resource file can not be found.

I assume that the src/main/resource folder from my TestProject is considered in this situation as the place to look for the resource files.

So how do i load the resource files in the BaseProject in a way that it will look always in its own src/main/resource folder?

And here is how i do it at the moment:

 InputStream inputStream = MyBaseClass.class
            .getResourceAsStream(
            "foo/bar/hello.xml" );
 String content = new Scanner( inputStream, "UTF-8" ).useDelimiter( "\\Z" ).next();

Answer 1

getResourceAsStream("path") looks up the resource relatively from the current class. If foo.bar is a full package name, you should use absolute path getResourceAsStream("/foo/bar/hello.xml")