java - Can't access to files in resources directory with Maven (with Eclipse IDE)

Question

I have a problem for a couple of hours, and I tried all the solutions I've found on tutorials. It's simple: I can't access the resource files. I try to open a file I've put in src/main/resources and src/test/resources.

I have a simple Java project and I use Maven, with Eclipse as IDE, with the m2e plugin. I want to use resources filtering with Maven, with different profiles, and there's my POM.xml:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.3.2</version>
      <configuration>
    <source>1.5</source>
    <target>1.5</target>
    <debug>false</debug>
    <optimize>true</optimize>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.4</version>
      <configuration>
    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>

  <filters>
    <filter>src/main/filters/${env}.properties</filter>
  </filters>

  <resources>
    <resource>
      <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
      <filtering>true</filtering>
    </resource>
    <resource>
      <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
      <filtering>true</filtering>
    </resource>
  </resources>
</build>

<profiles>
  <profile>
    <id>LOCAL</id>
    <activation>
      <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
    </activation>
    <properties>
      <env>local</env>
    </properties>
      </profile>
</profiles>

And I made a simple test, in src/java/test :

@Test
public void testOpenResourceFile() {
    File testf=new File("/test.txt");
    assertTrue(testf.exists());
}

So, in Eclipse, I run (on my project folder, in the package view) :

• Run as > Maven build > process-resources
• Run as > Maven build > process-test-ressources
• Run as > Maven build > compile

With env: LOCAL

In the test, I do: Run as > Junit Test Case. But it fail... I looked in target/test-classes directory generated by Maven, and the file test.txt is there.

Did I missed some steps during my project's compilation, or is there a problem with my configuration?

EDIT:
I tried with File("test.txt") and File("../test.txt") as well.

Answer 1

It looks to me like your problem is

File testf = new File( "/test.txt" );

That's looking for a file called test.txt at the root of your computer's filesystem. What you want is the root of the resource tree, which you get with the getResource method:

File testf = new File( this.getClass().getResource( "/test.txt" ).toURI() );

Or, in static context, use the name of the containing class:

File testf = new File( MyClass.class.getResource( "/test.txt" ).toURI() );

Of course you'll need to add error handling to that example.