Spring Boot images uploading and serving

Question

I\'m making new Spring Boot app and want to be able to store and serve images, I want images to be stored in applications directory:

this is what uploading look

Answer 1

You can store external files in a folder named /static in the same directory as your jar and spring will scan them by default. So if you have static/images/ you can reference your images with:

So you would want to use new File("/static/images/" + imgName);