This seems to be a Java issue rather than Hadoop?
Have you seen these below, regarding intricacies involved in reading a
resource file in Java jar?
http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-load-resources-from-classpath-in-java-example.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20389255/reading-a-resource-file-from-within-jar
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/403256/how-do-i-read-a-resource-file-from-a-java-jar-file?rq=1
Regards,
Shahab
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Harshit Mathur <mathursh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Are you reading the file in map or reduce task?
> On Jul 17, 2015 2:51 AM, "Nishanth S" <chinchu2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have built a jar file with maven as build tool which reads properties
>> from a file.I am doing this like InputStream is =
>> ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream(("hadoop.properties")) on start
>> iup.No qonce the jar is built I could see that the properties get loaded
>> when I do java -jar but when I am trying to execute the map reduce with
>> hadoop jar ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream returns input stream
>> null.I want to keep this property file within the jar and is available in
>> the classpath.Please advise if any one has met this scenario before.
>>
>>
>> -Chinchu
>>
>>
