Getting the inputstream from a classpath resource XML file

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In Java web application  Suppose if I want to get the InputStream of an XML file  which is placed in the CLASSPATH  i e  inside the sources folder   how do I do it

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someClassWithinYourSourceDir getClass   getResourceAsStream

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I tried proposed solution and forward slash in the file name did not work for me  example        getResourceAsStream   my properties     null was returned  Removing the slash worked      getResourceAsStream  my properties      Here is from doc API   Before delegation  an absolute resource name is constructed from the given resource name using this algorithm   If the name begins with a        u002f    then the absolute name of the resource is the portion of the name following the      Otherwise  the absolute name is of the following form       modified package name name   Where the modified package name is the package name of this object with     substituted for        u002e

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ClassLoader class getResourceAsStream   path file ext

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ClassLoader getResourceAsStream     As stated in the comment below  if you are in a multi-ClassLoader environment  such as unit testing  webapps  etc   you may need to use Thread currentThread   getContextClassLoader    See http   stackoverflow com questions 2308188 getresourceasstream-vs-fileinputstream 2308388 comment21307593 2308388

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ClassLoader class getResourceAsStream   path to your xml   and make sure that your compile script is copying the xml file to where in your CLASSPATH

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Some of the  getResourceAsStream    options in this answer didn t work for me  but this one did   SomeClassWithinYourSourceDir class getClassLoader   getResourceAsStream  yourResource

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That depends on where exactly the XML file is  Is it in the sources folder  in the  default package  or the  root   or in the same folder as the class   In for former case  you must use   file xml   note the leading slash  to find the file and it doesn t matter which class you use to try to locate it   If the XML file is next to some class  SomeClass class getResourceAsStream   with just the filename is the way to go

[java] Getting the inputstream from a classpath resource (XML file)

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