Read file from resources folder in Spring Boot

Question

I\'m using Spring Boot and json-schema-validator. I\'m trying to read a file called jsonschema.json from the resources folder. I\'ve t

Answer 1

See my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56854431/4453282

import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader;

Use these 2 imports.

Declare

@Autowired
ResourceLoader resourceLoader;

Use this in some function

Resource resource=resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:preferences.json");

In your case, as you need the file you may use following

File file = resource.getFile()

Reference:http://frugalisminds.com/spring/load-file-classpath-spring-boot/ As already mentioned in previous answers don't use ResourceUtils it doesn't work after deployment of JAR, this will work in IDE as well as after deployment