How to locate the Path of the current project directory in Java (IDE)?

Question

I am trying to locate the path of the current running/debugged project programmatically in Java, I looked in Google and what I found was System.getProperty(\"user.id\"

Answer 1

This is the new way to do it:

Path root = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("").toAbsolutePath();
Path filePath = Paths.get(root.toString(),"src", "main", "resources", fileName);

Or even better:

Path root = Paths.get(".").normalize().toAbsolutePath();

But I would take it one step further:

public String getUsersProjectRootDirectory() {
    String envRootDir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
    Path rootDIr = Paths.get(".").normalize().toAbsolutePath();
    if ( rootDir.startsWith(envRootDir) ) {
        return rootDir;
    } else {
        throw new RuntimeException("Root dir not found in user directory.");
    }
}