How do I access a file inside an OSGi bundle?

Question

I am new to OSGi and created an OSGi-bundle which I run in the Apache Felix OSGi-container. There is a file resource contained in the bundle, which I need to pass to a method as

Answer 1

What I use is getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream():

InputStream inStream = new java.io.BufferedInputStream(this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName));

This way the file will be loaded from your resource dir. FileName should contain the path after "src/main/resources".

Full example here:

static public byte[] readFileAsBytes(Class c, String fileName) throws IOException {
    InputStream inStream = new java.io.BufferedInputStream(c.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName));
    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    int nbytes = 0;
    byte[] buffer = new byte[100000];

    try {
        while ((nbytes = inStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            out.write(buffer, 0, nbytes);
        }
        return out.toByteArray();
    } finally {
        if (inStream != null) { 
            inStream.close();
        }
        if (out != null) {
            out.close();
        }
    }
}