unable to read config.properties in java with jar file

Question

I'm new to java, i have file named config.porperties i put it in this path / home/user/workspace/myproject/config.properties but when i submitted the jar file after packaged it i got that it cannot find this file

java.io.FileNotFoundException: config.properties (No such file or directory)

the code

FileInputStream finputstream = new FileInputStream(
                "/home/user/workspace/myproject/config.properties");
prop.load(finputstream);

but there is no error in the code i think the problem with jar file that it couldn't read the path !

Hope i can find help, THANKS

Answer 1

I am not sure what happend during "but when i submitted the jar file after packaged it". Your code still tried to load home/user/workspace/myproject/config.properties. So check whether that file exists and is readable.

If you want the file to reside on a different path - you have to change your code as the path is hardcoded.

if you expect the config.properties to be packaged within the jar and loaded from there, change your code to something like

InputStream input = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/classpath/to/my/file/config.properties");

Watch out: Again you are hardcoding a path but you can ensure the file will reside at that location within the jar.