Get a list of resources from classpath directory

Question

I am looking for a way to get a list of all resource names from a given classpath directory, something like a method List getResourceNames (String direct

Answer 1

With Spring it's easy. Be it a file, or folder, or even multiple files, there are chances, you can do it via injection.

This example demonstrates the injection of multiple files located in x/y/z folder.

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

@Service
public class StackoverflowService {
    @Value("classpath:x/y/z/*")
    private Resource[] resources;

    public List getResourceNames() {
        return Arrays.stream(resources)
                .map(Resource::getFilename)
                .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }
}

It does work for resources in the filesystem as well as in JARs.