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sonoerin
sonoerin

Reputation: 5175

best way to read a file in Spring Boot

I have a spring boot application that currently runs in embedded Tomcat. I have a file, states.csv, that I want to parse on startup and seed my states database table (I tried via liquibase but that refuses to work).

I put the file in resources/main/ and that appears to work fine. My question is, if I decided against embedded Tomcat in the future (say moving to AWS or a regular Tomcat), is this still the best location to keep files for use?

I don't want to code myself into a corner if there is a better way to do this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 323

Answers (1)

chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-

Reputation: 77177

This depends entirely on how you're reading the file. As long as you're grabbing it out of the classpath, you should be fine. (And I've run single-jar applications on both basic AWS VMs and Cloud Foundry on EC2 with no difficulty at all.)

Upvotes: 2

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