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user1198485

Reputation:

Reading Properties file

I Created a REST Web Service in Which I Created a config.properties file to store and retrieve some usernames and passwords through out the application. I stored it in /src/main/resources/config.properties.

when I tried to load it from my java code from eclipse it's working fine. but when I deployed it in tomcat it's not loading. the code i'm using to load the properties file is

properties.load(new FileInputStream("src/main/resources/config.properties"));

Can anyone help me how to resolve that issue

Upvotes: 13

Views: 26922

Answers (4)

Asraful
Asraful

Reputation: 1290

Suppose you want to read a example.properties file located in /WEB-INF/props/example.properties in run time.

    Properties properties = new java.util.Properties();  
        InputStream inputStream =     
            getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/props/example.properties");  
properties.load(inputStream);

Now , we are ready to get value from example.properties file .

String value = properties.getProperty("propertyName");

Sample Properties File :

example.properties

propertyName = 123

Upvotes: 1

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 45090

Try to load it from the classpath:-

final Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/config.properties"));

Upvotes: 1

PSR
PSR

Reputation: 40358

You can easily do it if your properties file is in WEB-INF/classes. In this case just write something like

Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/name.properties"));

Obviously the file may be located in sub folder of classes. In this case you have to specify the full path when calling getResourceAsStream()

Upvotes: 3

JB Nizet
JB Nizet

Reputation: 692231

What you deploy to Tomcat is a war file. Tomcat doesn't know or care about the directory where the sources of your application are.

The files in src/main/resources are copied to the target/classes directory by Maven, and this directory is then copied to the WEB-INF/classes directory of the deployed web application, which is in the classpath of your webapp. So you just need to load the file using the class loader:

properties.load(MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/config.properties"));

(MyClass being any class of your webapp).

Upvotes: 32

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