My hunch is that it is because the URI of a resource in a JAR file will necessarily be specific to where the JAR is on the local filesystem and that is not portable or the right way to read a resource. But you didn't specify the problem here. On Jan 14, 2015 5:15 AM, "Arun Lists" <lists.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I experimented with using getResourceAsStream(cls, fileName) instead > cls.getResource(fileName).toURI. That works! > > I have no idea why the latter method does not work in Spark. Any > explanations would be welcome. > > Thanks, > arun > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Arun Lists <lists.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In some classes, I initialize some values from resource files using the >> following snippet: >> >> new File(cls.getResource(fileName).toURI) >> >> This works fine in SBT. When I run it using spark-submit, I get a bunch of >> errors because the classes cannot be initialized. What can I do to make such >> initialization that is Spark friendly? >> >> Thanks, >> arun >> >> >> >
