Question

If i have a project which has a text file inside of it and i want to be able to read this text file which will be stored in my runnable jar then how can i do this? Currently i have a setup like this

public void someMethod()
{
    File f = new File("aFileInEclipseResourcesFolder.txt");

    doSomethingWithFile(f);
}

private void doSomethingWithFile(File f)
{
    //print the data in the file;
}

The issue is the application cant locate the file if i use this approach but if i use a hard coded path to the file then it works. I know you can use getClass().getResourceAsStream() but this wont allow me to get the already written file in to a file object without rewriting it again, or is this assumption incorrect?

Regards

Answer 1

You don’t want to use getResourceAsStream() you want

public URL getResource(String name)

the URL will give you the path to the resource and you can create a File object from that.