Denis suggests to copy contents of URL to a file first before
accessing it.
-D
On 7/16/06, Sebastien Arbogast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I tried that, based on Dennis' proposition:
>
> URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource( "/foo" );
> try {
> File servlet = new File(url.toURI());
> getLog().info(servlet.getAbsolutePath());
> } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
> throw new MojoExecutionException(e.getMessage(),e);
> }
>
> But then I got an exception on the first line of the try block:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not hierarchical
>
> I was thinking of using IOUtils to copy the content of foo to another
> directory but it seems to be harder than I thought.
>
> 2006/7/16, dan tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Thanks
> >
> > On 7/16/06, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > It depends on what you want to do with the resource.
> > >
> > > I used it with
> > > FileUtils.copyURLToFile( url, new File( outputDirectory,
filename )
> );
> > > to copy a resource from within the jar file to the target
directory.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dennis Lundberg
> > >
> > > dan tran wrote:
> > > > Dennis, would you suggestion work? since the resource is in a
jar,
> > > > and therefore obtaining a "File" object is not possible.
> > > >
> > > > am I missing something?
> > > >
> > > > -D
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 7/16/06, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Sebastien Arbogast wrote:
> > > >> > In the plugin I'm working on, I have a src/main/resources/foo
> > > >> > directory and as a result, when the plugin is packaged, I
get a
> foo
> > > >> > directory at the root of the plugin jar, and that's fine.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > But now I want to get a java.io.File reference to this foo
> directory
> > > >> > from inside the code of one of my mojos. How can I do that?
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> You can get a URL which can then be used to create a file like
> this:
> > > >>
> > > >> URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(
"/foo" );
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Dennis Lundberg
> > > >>
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