I have a project where I like to read data from json files. However, the files cannot be found. I have already tried the java directory, as well as src/main/resources. For reading the files I use:
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
where file is the name of the file, eg. "test.json".
Is there a specific directory I need to use? When I use a directory like "c:\temp\test.json" it works.
For the project I'm using IntelliJ and Maven.
import following
import java.net.URL; import com.google.common.base.Charsets; import com.google.common.io.Resources; public static String getFileAsString(String jsonfilename) throws IOException { URL url = Resources.getResource(jsonfilename); return Resources.toString(url, Charsets.UTF_8); } keep file src/java/resource file
InputStream is = Xxx.class.getResourceAsStream("/test.json"); Path relative to class's package folder, or absolute as here (/...). In maven under /src/main/resources.
URL url = Yyy.class.getResource("/test.json"); Path path = Paths.get(url.toURI()); String json = new String(Files.readAllBytes(path), StandardCharsets.UTF_8); 