Question

I have this error when I am trying to read the file:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: \src\product.txt (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
at dao.Inventory.readFile(Inventory.java:30)
at view.InventoryView.init(InventoryView.java:33)
at view.InventoryView.<init>(InventoryView.java:21)
at view.InventoryView.main(InventoryView.java:211)

But the thing is, I have the product.txt in my src folder.

My code is the following:

  public void readFile() throws IOException {
            // input file must be supplied in the first argument
            InputStream istream;
                    File inputFile = new File("\\src\\product.txt");
                    istream = new FileInputStream(inputFile);

                    BufferedReader lineReader;
                lineReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(istream));
                    String line;

                        while ((line = lineReader.readLine()) != null) {

                StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(line, "\t");

                // String tmp = tokens.nextToken();
                // System.out.println("token " + tmp);
                ActionProduct p = new ActionProduct();
                prodlist.add(p);
                String category = p.getCategory();
                category = tokens.nextToken();
                System.out.println("got category " +category);

                int item = p.getItem();
                item = Integer.parseInt(tokens.nextToken());

                String name = p.getName();
                System.out.println("got name " +name);

                double price = p.getPrice();
                price = Double.parseDouble(tokens.nextToken());

                int units = p.getUnits();
                units = Integer.parseInt(tokens.nextToken());
            }
        }

I don’t think anything is wrong with my code. Also, I saw a similar post about a hidden extension like FILE.TXT.TXT, how would you show a hidden extension in MacOSX?? Any suggestions? (Would there be any other problem besides the hidden extension issue?)

Answer 1

/src/product.txt is an absolute path, so the program will try to find the file in the src folder of your root path (/). Use src/product.txt so the program will use this as a relative path.