Correct way of reading a file in src/main/resources as string in a web application?

Question

I have a web application which has following structure (partial).

Project Name
   src/main/java
       com.package
           MainFile.java
   src/main/resources         


        

Answer 1

This file is in the web app classpath, so you can get it like:

Path path = Paths.get(getClass().getResource("/sample.xml").toURI());
return new String(Files.readAllBytes(path));