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

Because java.net.URL is not adequate for handling all kinds of low level resources, Spring introduced org.springframework.core.io.Resource. To access resources, we can use @Value annotation or ResourceLoader class. @Autowired private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;

@Override public void run(String... args) throws Exception {

    Resource res = resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:thermopylae.txt");

    Map words =  countWords.getWordsCount(res);

    for (String key : words.keySet()) {

        System.out.println(key + ": " + words.get(key));
    }
}