Spring MVC : read file from src/main/resources

Question

I have a maven Spring project, there is xml file inside src/main/resources/xyz.xml. How can I read it inside spring MVC controller.

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Answer 1

Best working code in Dec 14, 2019 (Spring version 5.1.0.RELEASE)

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

import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;

Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("xyz.xml");
InputStream input = resource.getInputStream();
File file = resource.getFile();

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