java - Getting FileSystemNotFoundException from ZipFileSystemProvider when creating a path to a resource

Question

I have a Maven project and inside a method I want to create a path for a directory in my resources folder. This is done like this:

try {
    final URI uri = getClass().getResource("/my-folder").toURI();
    Path myFolderPath = Paths.get(uri);
} catch (final URISyntaxException e) {
    ...
}

The generated URI looks like jar:file:/C:/path/to/my/project.jar!/my-folder.

The stacktrace is as following:

Exception in thread "pool-4-thread-1" java.nio.file.FileSystemNotFoundException
    at com.sun.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystemProvider.getFileSystem(ZipFileSystemProvider.java:171)
    at com.sun.nio.zipfs.ZipFileSystemProvider.getPath(ZipFileSystemProvider.java:157)
    at java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:143)

The URI seems to be valid. The part before ! points to the generated jar-file and the part after it to my-folder in the root of the archive. I have used this instructions before to create paths to my resources. Why am I getting an exception now?

Answer 1

You need to create the file system before you can access the path within the zip like

final URI uri = getClass().getResource("/my-folder").toURI();
Map<String, String> env = new HashMap<>(); 
env.put("create", "true");
FileSystem zipfs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env);
Path myFolderPath = Paths.get(uri);

This is not done automatically.

See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/io/fsp/zipfilesystemprovider.html