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store file in spring boot resource folder after deployment

I have deployed a spring-boot application JAR file. Now, I want to upload the image from android and store it in the myfolder of resource directory. But unable to get the path of resource directory.
Error is:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: src/main/resources/static/myfolder/myimage.png
(No such file or directory)
This is the code for storing the file in the resource folder
private final String RESOURCE_PATH = "src/main/resources";
String filepath = "/myfolder/";
public String saveFile(byte[] bytes, String filepath, String filename) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
File file = new File(RESOURCE_PATH + filepath + filename);
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
try {
out.write(bytes);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
out.close();
}
return file.getName();
}
UPDATED:
This is what I have tried
private final String RESOURCE_PATH = "config/";
controller class:
String filepath = "myfolder/";
String filename = "newfile.png"
public String saveFile(byte[] bytes, String filepath, String filename) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
//reading old file
System.out.println(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("config","myfolder","oldfile.png"))); //gives noSuchFileException
//writing new file
File file = new File(RESOURCE_PATH + filepath + filename);
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file); //FileNotFoundException
try {
out.write(bytes);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
out.close();
}
return file.getName();
}
Project structure:
+springdemo-0.0.1-application.zip
+config
+myfolder
-oldfile.png
-application.properties
+lib
+springdemo-0.0.1.jar
+start.sh
-springdemo-0.0.1.jar //running this jar file

Usually when you deploy an application (or start it using Java), you start a JAR file. You don't have a resource folder. You can have one and access it, too, but it certainly won't be src/main/resources.
When you build your final artifact (your application), it creates a JAR (or EAR or WAR) file and your resources, which you had in your src/main/resources-folder, are copied over to the output directory and included in the final artifact. That folder simply does not exist when the application is run (assuming you are trying to run it standalone).
During the build process target/ is created and contains the classes, resources, test-resources and the likes (assuming you are building with Maven; it is a little different if you build using Gradle or Ant or by hand).
What you can do is create a folder e.g. docs next to your final artifact, give it the appropriate permissions (chmod/chown) and have your application output files into that folder. This folder is then expected to exist on the target machine running your artifact, too, so if it doesn't, it would mean the folder does not exist or the application lacks the proper permissions to read from / write to that folder.
If you need more details, don't hesitate to ask.
Update:
To access a resource, which is bundled and hence inside your artifact (e.g. final.jar), you should be able to retrieve it by using e.g. the following:
testText = new String(ControllerClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/test.txt").readAllBytes());
This is assuming your test.txt file is right under src/main/resources and was bundled to be directly in the root of your JAR-file (or target folder where your application is run from). ControllerClass is the controller, which is accessing the file. readAllBytes just does exactly this: read all the bytes from a text file. For accessing images inside your artifact, you might want to use ImageIO.
IF you however want to access an external file, which is not bundled and hence not inside your artifact, you may use File image = new File(...) where ... would be something like "docs/image.png". This would require you to create a folder called docs next to your JAR-artifact and put a file image.png inside of it.
You of course also may work with streams and there are various helpful libraries for working with input- and output streams.
The following was meant for AWT, but it works in case you really want to access the bytes of your image: ImageIO. In a controller you usually wouldn't want to do that, but rather have your users access (and thus download) it from a given available folder.
I hope this helps :).

Loading Xml files from class path in Spring Boot

I am trying to load and validate xml files from a directory in the class path at startup of a Spring Boot application. I am seeing the following error which indicates that I am trying to load files using absolute path and not class path:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [converters/mapper.xml] cannot be resolved to absolute file path because it does not reside in the file system: jar:file:/opt/core/home/libexec/boss/core-service-2.0.0.jar!/BOOT-INF/lib/core-api-2.0.0.jar!/converters/mapper.xml
Below is a code snippet that loads the files:
..
#Autowired
public FieldsMapTypeConvertersRegistry(#Value("${core.files-location:converters}")
String mapperFilesLocation) {
this.mapperFilesLocation = mapperFilesLocation;
}
..
try {
// ToDo we need to replace this when we enable multi-tenancy
ClassLoader classLoader = ClassUtils.getDefaultClassLoader();
ResourcePatternResolver resolver = new PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver(classLoader);
Resource[] xmlResources = resolver.getResources(mapperFilesLocation + "/*.xml");
for (Resource xmlResource : xmlResources) {
File file = ResourceUtils.getFile(xmlResource.getURL());
registerTypeConverter(file);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
// do stuff
} catch (JAXBException e) {
//do stuff
}
I think the issue is in this statement in the code above:
File file = ResourceUtils.getFile(xmlResource.getURL());
but I am not sure what other ways I can do that. Any help is really appreciated.

I'm just wondering why you are using ResourceUtils.getFile(xmlResource.getURL()) when xmlResource.getFile() is already available to get the File Handle. Ideally speaking, you should be catching the FileNotFoundException inside the catch block and checking the detailed message wrapped inside the exception.
Edit:
The exception is being thrown because the xml is not found in classpath at runtime. Most probably, the file target/converters/mapper.xml is not available.

Try something like this MyService.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/file.xml"); and then create File from stream.

Try using commons-io:commons-io:2.7 (Maven artifact) and use the following code:
InputStream inputStream = obj.getClass()
.getClassLoader()
.getResourceAsStream("converters/mapper.xml");
String data = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, "UTF-8");

Jar classpath resources read failing which is triggerred from other executable jar

With reference to the link: How do I read a resource file from a Java jar file?
I am trying using your code base and trying to read content of sample.csv which is residing in my project directory src/main/resources. I am unable to read the content, it says can not read file. Output:
[Can not read file: sample.csv]
//This is added within your while loop after this check /* If it is a directory, then skip it. */
I mean when file is detected then next is my below code snippet added to read the file content
if(entry.getName().contains("sample.csv")) {
File f1 = new File("sample.csv");
if(f1.canRead()) {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(f1.toPath());
System.out.println("Lines in file: "+lines.size());
} else {
System.out.println("Can not read file: "+entry.getName());
}
}
Can anyone educate me what I am doing wrong here, how can I make it working?
My requirement is this:
(My micro-service) Service.jar imports Parser.jar library in its pom.xml
(My library) - Parser.jar has FnmaUtils-3.2-fieldMapping.csv file in src/main/resources directory
There is a FnmaUtils class that loads the FnmaUtils-3.2-fieldMapping.csv within its constructor, this class is part of Parser.jar - Here I am trying to read the content FnmaUtils-3.2-fieldMapping.csv, this step is keep failing with below error, tried all possible options shown in [How do I read a resource file from a Java jar file?
public FnmaUtils() {
String mappingFileUrl = null;
try {
Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("FnmaUtils-3.2-fieldMapping.csv");
mappingFileUrl = resource.getFile().getPath();
loadFnmaTemplate(mappingFileUrl);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
LOGGER.error("Error loading fnma template file ", e);
}
}
Getting error:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [`FnmaUtils-3.2-fieldMapping.csv`] cannot be resolved to absolute file path because it does not reside in the file system: `jar:file:/home/ravibeli/.m2/repository/com/xxx/mismo/util/fnma-parser32/2018.1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/fnma-parser32-2018.1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/FnmaUtils-3.2-fieldMapping.csv`
at org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils.getFile(ResourceUtils.java:218)
at org.springframework.core.io.AbstractFileResolvingResource.getFile(AbstractFileResolvingResource.java:52)
at com.xxx.fnma.util.FannieMaeUtils.<init>(FannieMaeUtils.java:41)
at com.xxx.fnma.processor.FNMA32Processor.<init>(FNMA32Processor.java:54)
at com.xxx.fnma.processor.FNMA32Processor.<clinit>(FNMA32Processor.java:43)
What is going wrong here?

Try
InputStream in = this.getClass().getClassLoader()
.getResourceAsStream("SomeTextFile.txt");
Be sure the resource is in your classpath.

FileInputStream not working in web application

We are trying to read a property file in a servlet using fileInputStream.
However we are constanlty getting a file not found exception.
This is the piece of code we are using
Properties properties = new Properties();
File propertyFile = new File("config" + File.separatorChar + "abc.properties");
try {
FileInputStream propertyFileStream = new FileInputStream(propertyFile);
properties.load(propertyFileStream);
propertyFileStream.close();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
While using getResourceAsStream it is working fine.
However we need to understand why FileInputStream is not working.
We have placed the config\abc.properties file in the webInf. We have also tried placing it in the src folder(java classpath), the webContent folder, the WebInf\Classes folder but no success.

Resources are not files. They don't live in the file system and they cannot be accessed via File or FileInputStream.
You should be using Class.getResource().

Try by using
ResourceBundle resource = ResourceBundle.getBundle("test");
String VALUE1=resource.getString("KEY1");
String VALUE2=resource.getString("KEY2");

You should use this code to get resources on web application, because the path must be taken from ServletContext, I think that's what you're looking for, if you are inside Servlet:
InputStream is = getContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/yourFolder/abc.properties");
to get the full path for your interest:
String fullPath = getContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/yourFolder/abc.properties");

java.io.FileNotFoundException: config.properties

I have a certain requirement where I need to copy files from Unix server to Windows Shared Drive. I am developing the necessary code for this in Java. I am a beginner so please excuse me for this basic question.
I have my source path in my config file. So, I am using the below code to import my config file and set my variable. My Project has config.properties file attached to it.
public static String rootFolder = "";
Properties prop = new Properties();
InputStream input = null;
try {
input = new FileInputStream("config.properties");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Config files not able to set properly for Dest Folder");
}
try {
prop.load(input);
rootFolder = prop.getProperty("Dest_Root_Path");
System.out.println("Destination Folder is being initialized to - "+rootFolder);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Destination Path not set properly");
}
When I am doing this I am getting an error saying the file is not found.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: config.properties (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:158)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:113)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:357)
I am triggering this jar using a unix ksh shell. Please provide guidance to me.

Put your config file somewhere within the classpath. For example, if it's a webapp, in WEB-INF/classes. If it isn't a webapp, create a folder outside the project, put the file there, and set the classpath so the new folder is in it.
Once you have your file in the classpath, get it as a resource with getResourceAsStream():
InputStream is = MyProject.class.getResourceAsStream("/config.properties");
Don't forget the slash / before the filename.