Spring Boot access static resources missing scr/main/resources

Question

I am working on a Spring Boot application. I need to parse an XML file (countries.xml) on start. The problem is that I do not understand where to put it so that I could acce

Answer 1

You can use following code to read file in String from resource folder.

final Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("public.key");
String publicKey = null;
try {
     publicKey = new String(Files.readAllBytes(resource.getFile().toPath()), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
} catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
}