How to read file from relative path in Java project java io File cannot find the path specified

Question

I have a project with 2 packages     tkorg idrs core searchengines tkorg idrs core searchengines   In package  2  I have a text file ListStopWords txt  in package  1  I have a class FileLoadder  Here is code in FileLoader   File file   new File  properties  files  ListStopWords txt      But have this error   The system cannot find the path specified   Can you give a solution to fix it  Thanks

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The relative path works in in java using the . operator.

. means same folder as the currently running context.
.. means the parent folder of the currently running context.

So the question is how do you know the path where the java is currently looking?

do a small experiment

   File directory = new File("./");
   System.out.println(directory.getAbsolutePath());

Observe the output , you will come to know the current directory where java is looking . From there , simply use the ./ operator to locate your file.

for example if the output is

G:\JAVA8Ws\MyProject\content.

and your file is present in the folder MyProject simply use

File resourceFile = new File("../myFile.txt");

Hope this helps

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If you are trying to call getClass   from Static method or static block the you can do the following way   You can call getClass   on the Properties object you are loading into   public static Properties pathProperties   null   static        pathProperties   new Properties        String pathPropertiesFile     file xml      InputStream paths   pathProperties getClass   getResourceAsStream pathPropertiesFile

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The following line can be used if we want to specify the relative path of the file   File file   new File    properties files ListStopWords txt

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I could have commented but I have less rep for that  Samrat s answer did the job for me  It s better to see the current directory path through the following code       File directory   new File            System out println directory getAbsolutePath       I simply used it to rectify an issue I was facing in my project  Be sure to use    to back to the parent directory of the current directory         test conf appProperties keystore

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For me actually the problem is the File object s class path is from  lt project folder path gt  or   src  so use File file   new File    src xxx txt    solved my problem

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While the answer provided by BalusC works for this case  it will break when the file path contains spaces because in a URL  these are being converted to  20 which is not a valid file name  If you construct the File object using a URI rather than a String  whitespaces will be handled correctly   URL url   getClass   getResource  ListStopWords txt    File file   new File url toURI

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InputStream in   FileLoader class getResourceAsStream   lt relative path from this class to the file to be read gt     try       BufferedReader reader   new BufferedReader new InputStreamReader in        String line   null          while   line   reader readLine       null                System out println line               catch  Exception e        e printStackTrace

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try   properties files ListStopWords txt

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If text file is not being read  try using a more closer absolute path  if you wish  you could use complete absolute path   like this   FileInputStream fin new FileInputStream    Dash  src  RS  Test txt      assume that the absolute path is   C   Folder1  Folder2  Dash  src  RS  Test txt

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String basePath   new File  myFile txt   getAbsolutePath    this basepath you can use as the correct path of your file

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I wanted to parse  command json  inside src main  js Simulator java  For that I copied json file in src folder and gave the absolute path like this    Object obj    parser parse new FileReader    src command json

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Assuming you want to read from resources directory in FileSystem class   String file    dummy txt   var path   Paths get  src com company fs resources    file   System out println path    System out println Files readString path      Note  Leading   is not needed

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If it s already in the classpath  then just obtain it from the classpath instead of from the disk file system  Don t fiddle with relative paths in java io File  They are dependent on the current working directory over which you have totally no control from inside the Java code   Assuming that ListStopWords txt is in the same package as your FileLoader class  then do   URL url   getClass   getResource  ListStopWords txt    File file   new File url getPath       Or if all you re ultimately after is actually an InputStream of it   InputStream input   getClass   getResourceAsStream  ListStopWords txt      This is certainly preferred over creating a new File   because the url may not necessarily represent a disk file system path  but it could also represent virtual file system path  which may happen when the JAR is expanded into memory instead of into a temp folder on disk file system  or even a network path which are both not per definition digestable by File constructor   If the file is -as the package name hints- is actually a fullworthy properties file  containing key value lines  with just the  wrong  extension  then you could feed the InputStream immediately to the load   method   Properties properties   new Properties    properties load getClass   getResourceAsStream  ListStopWords txt       Note  when you re trying to access it from inside static context  then use FileLoader class  or whatever YourClass class  instead of getClass   in above examples

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