Question

I have deployed my app to jar file. When I need to copy data from one file of resource to outside of jar file, I do this code:

URL resourceUrl = getClass().getResource("/resource/data.sav");
File src = new File(resourceUrl.toURI()); //ERROR HERE
File dst = new File(CurrentPath()+"data.sav");  //CurrentPath: path of jar file don't include jar file name
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(src);
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(dst);
 // some excute code here

The error I have met is: URI is not hierarchical. this error I don’t meet when run in IDE.

If I change above code as some help on other post on StackOverFlow:

InputStream in = Model.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/resource/data.sav");
File dst = new File(CurrentPath() + "data.sav");
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(dst);
//....
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int len;
while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) { //NULL POINTER EXCEPTION
  //....
}

Answer 1

You cannot do this

File src = new File(resourceUrl.toURI()); //ERROR HERE

it is not a file!
When you run from the ide you don’t have any error, because you don’t run a jar file. In the IDE classes and resources are extracted on the file system.

But you can open an InputStream in this way:

InputStream in = Model.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/data.sav");

Remove "/resource". Generally the IDEs separates on file system classes and resources. But when the jar is created they are put all together. So the folder level "/resource" is used only for classes and resources separation.

When you get a resource from classloader you have to specify the path that the resource has inside the jar, that is the real package hierarchy.