Listing files from resource directory in sbt 1.2.8

Question

I have a Scala application which processes binary files from some directory in resources. I would like to get this directory as java.io.File and li

Answer 1

run task seems to have been rewired in Forward run task to bgRun #3477 and one side-effect was to use packaged jars on classpaths instead of class directories, so that getClass.getResource("/my-dir") returns

jar:file:/var/folders/84/hm7trc012j19rbgtn2h4fg6c0000gp/T/sbt_1397efb8/job-1/target/43a04671/sbt-resource-bug_2.12-0.1.jar!/my-dir

instead of

file:/Users/amani/IdeaProjects/sbt-resource-bug/target/scala-2.12/classes/my-dir

Workaround 1 : Redefine run to the old behaviour

As a workaround, we could try reverting the rewiring in our build.sbt like so:

run := Defaults.runTask(fullClasspath in Runtime, mainClass in run in Compile, runner in run).evaluated

Now File.listFiles should work, for example,

new File(getClass.getResource("/my-dir").getFile).listFiles().foreach(println)

should output

sbt:sbt-resource-bug> run
[info] Running Main 
/Users/mario/IdeaProjects/sbt-resource-bug/target/scala-2.12/classes/my-dir/file2.txt
/Users/mario/IdeaProjects/sbt-resource-bug/target/scala-2.12/classes/my-dir/file1.txt

 Workaround 2: Use JarFile to work with JARs directly

Alternatively, if we wish to keep the current rewiring, JarFile can be used to list the contents of JAR files. For example, given

object ListFileNamesInJarDirectory {
  def apply(dir: String): List[String] = {
    import scala.collection.JavaConverters.enumerationAsScalaIteratorConverter
    val jar = new File(getClass.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath())
    (new JarFile(jar))
      .entries()
      .asScala
      .toList
      .filter(!_.isDirectory)
      .filter(entry => entry.getRealName.contains(dir))
      .map(_.getName)
  }
}

then

ListFileNamesInJarDirectory("my-dir").foreach(println)

should output

my-dir/file1.txt
my-dir/file2.txt

Afterwards, getResourceAsStream can be used to get at the actual files in the jar. Note how we get File to represent the jar file:

val jar = new File(getClass.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath())