Executable Jar cannot find typesafe/config application.conf on classpath

Question

I have a command line app that downloads some reports, processes them, then uploads data to Google Drive. I\'m using Typesafe-Config for all the magic strings I need. Typesa

Answer 1

I also had that issue. I've noticed that you use a Class-Path declaration in shaded configuration, so I've merged the answer by Lothar with your info and added:

<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
    <manifestEntries>
        <Main-Class>com.my.reports.ReportRunner</Main-Class>
            <Class-Path>.</Class-Path>
    </manifestEntries>
</transformer>

Answer 2

As I just had the same problem...

The -jar overrides all classpath settings, so only the jar is seen. -Dconfig.trace=loads will show what is seen by java.

We want the application.conf on the classpath, as well as the jar, so: java -cp .:my-reports-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar full.path.to.main.Main did the trick for me. application.conf found and overrides reference.conf in the jar.