Question

I have a txt file. I have packaged it in a zip and a jar, using jar cf0.... I have tried both in an effort to get this to work.

models.zip/models.jar
 |
 |_subfolder
     |
     |_MyFile.txt

In some code I have…

InputStream in = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

I have tried setting path to…

MyFile.txt
/MyFile.txt
/subfolder/MyFile.txt
classpath:/subfolder/MyFile.txt
models.zip/subfolder/MyFile.txt
models.jar/subfolder/MyFile.txt
models.zip!/subfolder/MyFile.txt
models.jar!/subfolder/MyFile.txt

I have also tried putting the jar/zip in WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib.

None of this works, in is always null.

And just so you know, when I put MyFile.txt in WEB-INF/classes I can get it fine.

Please provide a tried and tested answer! Please dont just copy and paste code from another answer.

Answer 1

I feel like a plonker! Problem was having models.jar in both the lib AND the classes folder. It should be in just the lib folder.