How to get a path to a resource in a Java JAR file

Question

I am trying to get a path to a Resource but I have had no luck.

This works (both in IDE and with the JAR) but this way I can\'t get a path to a file, only the file

Answer 1

Inside your ressources folder (java/main/resources) of your jar add your file (we assume that you have added an xml file named imports.xml), after that you inject ResourceLoader if you use spring like bellow

@Autowired
private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;

inside tour function write the bellow code in order to load file:

    Resource resource = resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:imports.xml");
    try{
        File file;
        file = resource.getFile();//will load the file
...
    }catch(IOException e){e.printStackTrace();}