How to get a path to a resource in a Java JAR file

Question

I am trying to get a path to a Resource but I have had no luck.

This works (both in IDE and with the JAR) but this way I can\'t get a path to a file, only the file

Answer 1

if netclient.p is inside a JAR file, it won't have a path because that file is located inside other file. in that case, the best path you can have is really file:/path/to/jarfile/bot.jar!/config/netclient.p.

Answer 2

This is same code from user Tombart with stream flush and close to avoid incomplete temporary file content copy from jar resource and to have unique temp file names.

File file = null;
String resource = "/view/Trial_main.html" ;
URL res = getClass().getResource(resource);
if (res.toString().startsWith("jar:")) {
    try {
        InputStream input = getClass().getResourceAsStream(resource);
        file = File.createTempFile(new Date().getTime()+"", ".html");
        OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
        int read;
        byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];

        while ((read = input.read(bytes)) != -1) {
            out.write(bytes, 0, read);
        }
        out.flush();
        out.close();
        input.close();
        file.deleteOnExit();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
} else {
    //this will probably work in your IDE, but not from a JAR
    file = new File(res.getFile());
}
         

Answer 3

The following path worked for me: classpath:/path/to/resource/in/jar

Answer 4

In my case, I have used a URL object instead Path.

File

File file = new File("my_path");
URL url = file.toURI().toURL();

Resource in classpath using classloader

URL url = MyClass.class.getClassLoader().getResource("resource_name")

When I need to read the content, I can use the following code:

InputStream stream = url.openStream();

And you can access the content using an InputStream.

Answer 5

I spent a while messing around with this problem, because no solution I found actually worked, strangely enough! The working directory is frequently not the directory of the JAR, especially if a JAR (or any program, for that matter) is run from the Start Menu under Windows. So here is what I did, and it works for .class files run from outside a JAR just as well as it works for a JAR. (I only tested it under Windows 7.)

try {
    //Attempt to get the path of the actual JAR file, because the working directory is frequently not where the file is.
    //Example: file:/D:/all/Java/TitanWaterworks/TitanWaterworks-en.jar!/TitanWaterworks.class
    //Another example: /D:/all/Java/TitanWaterworks/TitanWaterworks.class
    PROGRAM_DIRECTORY = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("TitanWaterworks.class").getPath(); // Gets the path of the class or jar.

    //Find the last ! and cut it off at that location. If this isn't being run from a jar, there is no !, so it'll cause an exception, which is fine.
    try {
        PROGRAM_DIRECTORY = PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.substring(0, PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.lastIndexOf('!'));
    } catch (Exception e) { }

    //Find the last / and cut it off at that location.
    PROGRAM_DIRECTORY = PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.substring(0, PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
    //If it starts with /, cut it off.
    if (PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.startsWith("/")) PROGRAM_DIRECTORY = PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.substring(1, PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.length());
    //If it starts with file:/, cut that off, too.
    if (PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.startsWith("file:/")) PROGRAM_DIRECTORY = PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.substring(6, PROGRAM_DIRECTORY.length());
} catch (Exception e) {
    PROGRAM_DIRECTORY = ""; //Current working directory instead.
}

Answer 6

It may be a little late but you may use my library KResourceLoader to get a resource from your jar:

File resource = getResource("file.txt")