Project root folder path

Question

I have a class in a package com.mwerner.utils that needs the path for an getResourceAsStream() call

the file it is supposed to load is located in a subfolder of the project root i.e.:

/src/com/mwerner/utils/myfile.java has to load

/res/file.xml

I tried stuff like

/res/file.xml
../res/file.xml
res/file.xml

What is the right one?

EDIT:

I am using Xstream to parse the XML into objects. The line of code in question is:

ObjectInputStream in = xstream.createObjectInputStream(Utils.class.getResourceAsStream("res/file.xml"));

I get an IOException with unknown source

Solution

Turns out Eclipse puts the entire content of the res folder in the root folder of the bin folder. Therefore the path is just very simply /file.xml. I tried putting it into a subfolder of res called xmls and the path then is /xmls/file.xml

I also went to the source tab of the java build path and added the res folder.

Comments

[Daniel]

I dont't know how the code is executed, but try to add these lines Path currentRelativePath = Paths.get(""); String s = currentRelativePath.toAbsolutePath().toString(); System.out.println("Current relative path is: " + s); This should print out the current folder

[Behe]

What did you try and what happened?

[Viktor Seifert]

So the 'src' and 'res' directories are located in the same parent directory?

[Killerpixler]

well the src folder is where eclipse stores the source code, the res folder is - like the src folder - in the root of the project, i.e. would be in the root of the JAR that i'd package for distribution