If I have a constructor that requires a path to a file, how can I “fake” that if it is packaged into a jar?

Question

The context of this question is that I am trying to use the maxmind java api in a pig script that I have written... I do not think that knowing about either is necessary to

Answer 1

This works for me.

Assuming you have a package org.foo.bar.util that contains GeoLiteCity.dat

URL fileURL = this.getClass().getResource("org/foo/bar/util/GeoLiteCity.dat");
File geoIPData = new File(fileURL.toURI());
LookupService cl = new LookupService(geoIPData, LookupService.GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE );