Getting a File from the resource directory

Label: blog door Dirk Janssen op 18 maart, 2019
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In every project that I start I’m always fussing with getting a file from the classpath when testing some code. For example, when I have to get an XML file and compare it with some test result. I always end up with a method called getResourceAsAString or something similar and I always have to do some googling on how to do it. So without further ado, my latest fancy getResourceAsAString method:

package nl.confused
 
import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
 
public class TestUtils {
 
    public static String getResourceAsAString(String fileLocation) throws IOException {
        return new String(Files.readAllBytes(ResourceUtils.getFile(fileLocation).toPath()));
    }

And this is the actual call of the method:

getResourceAsString("classpath:templates/results/pom.xml");
Dirk Janssen
Dirk Janssen

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