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woky
woky

Reputation: 4936

Spring - relative path in classpath resource

I'm wondering if if (and how) I could use relative classpath resource paths within spring. I've following application structure:

src/
  org/me/
    mainContext.xml
    app1/
      app1Context.xml
    app2/
      app2Context.xml
      comp1/
        comp1Context.xml

Now in mainContext.xml I'd like to import bean definitions by relative paths:

<import resource="classpath:app1/app1Context.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath:app2/app2Context.xml"/>

and similary in app2Context.xml:

<import resource="classpath:comp1/comp1Context.xml"/>

(The org.me.app2 code is in different jar (WEB-INF/lib/app2.jar)).

However currently I'm getting FileNotFoundException exception:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [app1/app1Context.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Can I use such relative paths? How? To which path are relative classpath paths resolved?

There is a similar question (Relative paths in spring classpath resource) but people are only suggesting what I'm already doing (and what doesn't work right now).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7803

Answers (1)

Ralph
Ralph

Reputation: 120771

There is a similar question (Relative paths in spring classpath resource) but people are only suggesting what I'm already doing (and what doesn't work right now).

That is wrong: The people answered with paths that are relative to the classpath root, but not relative to the location of the xml! (*You should notice that the example in "Relative paths in spring classpath resource" is a maven project, so the folder resources become the classpath root)

So if you want to use the same technique then the imports would be (with org/me):

<import resource="classpath:org/me/app1/app1Context.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath:org/me/app2/app2Context.xml"/>

Upvotes: 1

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