Easy way to get a test file into JUnit

Question

Can somebody suggest an easy way to get a reference to a file as a String/InputStream/File/etc type object in a junit test class? Obviously I could paste the file (xml in t

Answer 1

If you need to actually get a File object, you could do the following:

URL url = this.getClass().getResource("/test.wsdl");
File testWsdl = new File(url.getFile());

Which has the benefit of working cross platform, as described in this blog post.