Yes, it turned out that this is a standard phenomena and adding .getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream did the job.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Huybrechts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 10:01 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Failing to find system resouces in unit test in surefire I'm not a surefire expert, this is just from taking a quick look at the source: However you run Surefire (forked or not, with child delegation or not), the system classloader will not contain your test code. In forked mode, it will only contain surefire and your testing framework. Surefire itself will create an isolated classloader that contains your test code and its dependencies and run your tests from that classloader. If you expect your code to work in anything but a basic Java application, do not depend on the system classloader. And unfortunately, surefire is not a basic app. tom On 12/25/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/24/06, Benson Margulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a class that calls ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream to > > retrieve an XML file. All is well when running the live code, and even > > when running JUnit from Eclipse. From surefire, the XML file is not > > found. > > > > I sense that I'm missing something about class paths, but I can't find > > anything really apposite in the documentation. > > I can reproduce it, but I can't explain it. > > According to the Surefire docs [1], tests normally run in an isolated > classloader. > > However, setting childDelegation=true, which supposedly "makes tests > run using the standard classloader delegation instead of the default > Maven isolated classloader" didn't help matters. > > With src/main/resources/temp.properties, running from Surefire, > ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("temp.properties"); > returns null while > this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("temp.properties"); > doesn't. > > In IDEA, neither one returns null (and the tests pass.) > > Here's a sample project if you want to play with it: > http://people.apache.org/~wsmoak/maven/system-resource-1.0-SNAPSHOT-src. zip > > [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html > > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
