PDF file with empty pages appearing after Copying using Java Files.copy

Question

I am trying to copy a file in my Class path to another temp location.

Here is the code for it:

    InputStream inputStream = this.getClass().getClass         


        

Answer 1

Yes, this worked for me too; in Maven documentation i found this for more information;

Warning: Do not filter files with binary content like images! This will most likely result in corrupt output. If you have both text files and binary files as resources, you need to declare two mutually exclusive resource sets. The first resource set defines the files to be filtered and the other resource set defines the files to copy unaltered

Answer 2

Issue was totally unrelated. I was using maven copy resource to copy the resources under my src/main/resources/

this was my maven resource:

        <resource>
            <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            <filtering>true</filtering>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.properties</include>
                <include>**/*.xml</include>
                <include>**/*.txt</include>
                <include>**/*.html</include>
                <include>**/*.pdf</include>
            </includes>
        </resource>

Since the filtering was on PDF file was copied as an empty doco to the target folder.

I just seperated it into two resources with filtering off for PDF file.

        <resource>
            <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            <filtering>true</filtering>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.properties</include>
                <include>**/*.xml</include>
                <include>**/*.txt</include>
                <include>**/*.html</include>
            </includes>
        </resource>
        <resource>
            <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            <filtering>false</filtering>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.pdf</include>
            </includes>
        </resource>

Thanks to Drew Buckley, I got the issue when trying to do a binary comparison of the file. Actual file on the project was different and the one on the target folder which gets copied from the maven was different.

It works fine now.