Spring 3.0 inject files as resources

Question

In my Spring 3.0 app, I have some resources in /WEB-INF/dir. At runtime I need some of them as an InputStream (or some other type). How can I retri

Answer 1

Here's a full example to retrieve a classpath resource. I use it to grab SQL files that have really complex queries which I don't want to store in Java classes:

public String getSqlFileContents(String fileName) {
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    try {
        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource(fileName);
        DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(resource.getInputStream());
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        String strLine;
        while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(" " + strLine);
        }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return sb.toString();
}