Re: Getting Maven project resources (Eclipse)
Hello, I just started with Maven also, but it appears that when you are running your test case the classpath will be set to both testproject/target/classes and testproject/target/testclasses. Are these resources you need for a test or something and you won't know how many are there? ie: you need to run all of them? Tell us more about what you are trying to accomplish. I think I would maybe have a directory off test and put them in there and access them not as a resource but as a file. Then you can get a directory listing and be done with it. Otherwise you need to specify the name of the resources to fetch somewhere.. thanks, -jr zagu2 wrote: I'm using Eclipse and m2eclipse. Say I have a project like this: testproject - src -- main --- java MainClass.java --- resources 1.txt 2.txt -- test --- java TestClass.java --- resources 3.txt Now, I can have some code in TestClass doing something like: this.getClass().getResource(/n.txt) where n = 1, 2, 3 and it will fetch the appropriate file correctly - I can get to each of the above text files, which is expected. However, I don't seem to find a way to fetch any text resource (i.e. *.txt), tried the following: - Use getResource and alikes - cannot do *.txt since the resource must be fully named (asterisks don't work) - Use getResource to find where compiled TestClass.class is stored and find *.txt from that folder, since Maven separates these into target/classes and target/test-classes, so I can only find 3.txt - Get directly to source (i.e. src/main/resources and src/test/resources, since I know their location), since I don't know how get to the project's root (i.e. get path to the testproject) I know I can do the absolute /a/b/.../z/workspace/testproject/..., but that's very unportable. Another way would be to make a file with a known name which would list all the resources, but that's lame (non-DRY), too. Did you have problems like this and, if so, how did you solve them? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
Re: Getting Maven project resources (Eclipse)
Correct - I want to have an option of getting many files at once. In my case, it's the Spring configuration - I have many applicationContext*.xml files that I just need aggregated, but there are many other cases - Hibernate mappings, different kinds of property files, etc. The main motivation is: I want to name all my files prefixSuffix.ext and load all of them with prefix*.ext. That way if I decide later to, say, split an applicationContext.xml into 10 pieces (since it became too large), I don't go and change all the places I load it from. Again, in this case it's not that it's that hard - I need to change two things - the main loader and the test loader classes. However, in general, there might be many resources and/or resources out of your control. To give you an example - say you are building a template engine (like Velocity) or a wiki engine. Simple - you have an input file, some rules to translate to output and the output file. Rules are not something the user needs to specify - they are the internal thing. (Say we don't want the user to be able to say ok, now I want my Wiki engine to translate h3. into header level 3 instead of ===). Since they are internal, they seem to be resources that should be built in directly to the resulting jar, for example. Now, I am just starting my wiki engine and I am adding things one by one. With a file-system approach, I could load, say, some defaults used by these rules from property files dynamically. I don't want to say: load defaults for lists, then I add headers and I want to load defaults for headers, then load defaults for code blocks, then load defaults for paragraphs, then... Unfortunately, isn't it true that what I need to do now exactly that? I suppose there are more examples of this. In general, it's - I want to load many files and not have to specify what in two places - as files themselves (which already contain a name) and as a list of resources (which just duplicate the file names). To summarize - I'm just whining too much about portability here. :) Thanks James! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Getting-Maven-project-resources-Eclipse-tp3568731p3569012.html Sent from the maven users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
Re: Getting Maven project resources (Eclipse)
zagu2 wrote: I suppose there are more examples of this. In general, it's - I want to load many files and not have to specify what in two places - as files themselves (which already contain a name) and as a list of resources (which just duplicate the file names) Understand..How about some type of generated class which gets list of files in resource directory and generates a class with a strings[] of the required resource names. This generated class would be references from your test to load the right context. Now, I'm new to maven so I wouldn't have a clue on how to wire that in.. I suppose in the code generation phase, maybe using some type of ant task? -jr - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
Re: Getting Maven project resources (Eclipse)
Good thinking, shouldn't bee to hard to be written either. I'd like it more dynamic, though :) On the other hand, I just had a doh! moment. Seems like new File(.).getAbsolutePath() gives the execution folder in Eclipse (and not the classpath root where the class is, like getClass().getResource(/) does), which solves part of the issue. If you make sure all your configuration files are in root, you will be able to locate them relatively from that. *sigh*. It seems this is more a what is a file and what is a resource type of question for somebody more versed in spring. Should you embed applicationContext.xml inside the jar? It would allow you to run jar-only (no external dependencies), but won't enable dynamically changing the file and future additions without the repacking... :| Just blabing... Thanks again James! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Getting-Maven-project-resources-Eclipse-tp3568731p3569403.html Sent from the maven users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
