getResourceAsStream returns null

Question

I\'m loading a text file from within a package in a compiled JAR of my Java project. The relevant directory structure is as follows:

/src/initialization/Life         


        

Answer 1

Roughly speaking:

getClass().getResource("/") ~= Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(".")

Suppose your project structure is like the following:

├── src
│   ├── main
│   └── test
│   └── test
│       ├── java
│       │   └── com
│       │       └── github
│       │           └── xyz
│       │               └── proj
│       │                   ├── MainTest.java
│       │                   └── TestBase.java
│       └── resources
│           └── abcd.txt
└── target
    └── test-classes
        ├── com
        └── abcd.txt

// in MainClass.java
this.getClass.getResource("/") -> "~/proj_dir/target/test-classes/"
this.getClass.getResource(".") -> "~/proj_dir/target/test-classes/com/github/xyz/proj/"
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources(".") -> "~/proj_dir/target/test-classes/"
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources("/") ->  null