Question

I have following directories structure:

UPDATED STRUCTURE

src
 |
 -test
     |
     -java
     |   |
     |   -SomeXmlTest.java
     |
     -resources
          |
          -someXmlContent.xml

I think something like that bad practise:

new File(C:\Project ... \src\resources\someXmlContent.xml)

// or magic dance like that
File currentDir = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir");
File parent = currentDir.getParent();
for (File file:parent.listFiles()){
    //find resources directory and iterate over it files
}

I believe that there is simple annotation base solution, for example I just write “src\resources\someXmlContent.xml” in some annotation and testng resolve path automatically, but how can I do this?

Answer 1

Use resources instead of files. In this way you can pack your application in a jar and retrieve the resource inside of the jar.

Use an InputStream instead of a File/FileInputStream:

InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/someXml.xml");

That is a more generic solution than File.