read file in classpath

Question

Here is what I want to do and I am wondering if there is any Spring classes that will help with implementing. I don\'t have to use spring for this particular problem, I\'m

Answer 1

Change . to / as the path separator and use getResourceAsStream:

reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
    getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(
        "com/company/app/dao/sql/SqlQueryFile.sql")));

or

reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
    getClass().getResourceAsStream(
        "/com/company/app/dao/sql/SqlQueryFile.sql")));

Note the leading slash when using Class.getResourceAsStream() vs ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream. getSystemResourceAsStream uses the system classloader which isn't what you want.

I suspect that using slashes instead of dots would work for ClassPathResource too.