FWIW, I have a trick that I use in my unit tests to retrieve java.io.Filereferences to resources like that...the nice thing is that it works both in the IDE and from a Maven build.
private File getFile( String resourceName ) { ClassLoader cloader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(); URL resource = cloader.getResource( resourceName ); if ( resource == null ) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Could not get resource: " + resourceName ); } return new File( resource.getPath() ); } Admittedly, I don't know that this is a bullet-proof way to get any classpath resource as a file at any time, but for those two cases (during testing in a Maven build, and from an IDE, where the resources are available as a class folder) it works well for me. HTH, john On 6/6/06, Lyndon Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Wendy, Thanks for the information. I will try this out since it appears to be what I was looking for. Cheers, -Lyndon- On 6/5/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/5/06, Lyndon Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a unit test that was setup in the old ANT build to load resources > > using a relative path. I have put the resource that is being retrieved > in > > the projects 'test/resources/conf' folder. How would I reference the > file, > > where previously I used 'conf/foo.xml'? > > > > I guess I was assuming that there would be a system propery that I could > > use. Another snippet of info is that this project is part of a large > pom > > heirarchy, so the test could be run from the parent or from the actual > > project location. > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html > > Surefire sets a 'basedir' system property, which you can retrieve with: > System.getProperty("basedir") > > It also sets 'localRepository', which can be useful for locating > artifacts (such as war files to deploy with Cargo.) > > In addition, you can pass in your own system properties in the > <plugin>/<configuration> section. > > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >