Spring MVC Get file under WEB-INF without a request

Question

I am trying to get hold of a file ( or a directory ) under /WEB-INF/.../

outside of a request. I need it in a bean loaded at server startup.

A

Answer 1

This is how you can do it if you just want to access it from a Service (not through ServletContext):

    final DefaultResourceLoader loader = new DefaultResourceLoader();
    Resource resource = loader.getResource("classpath:templates/mail/sample.png");
    File myFile = resource.getFile();

Note that the last line may throw IOException so you need to catch / rethrow

Note, that the file is here: src\main\resources\templates\mail\sample.png