Java Resource Load getResourceAsStream(String resourcePath)

Description

We must get the Resource as a stream from the ContextClassLoader and not from the normal classLoader acquired by using getClass.getClassLoader, since we must be able to load resources from different threads e.g.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
resourcePath	path to the resource

Return

resource as InputStream

Declaration

public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(String resourcePath)

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.InputStream;

public class Main {
    /**
     * We must get the Resource as a stream from the ContextClassLoader and not from the normal classLoader
     * acquired by using getClass.getClassLoader, since we must be able to load resources from different threads
     * e.g. running in ant.
     *
     * @param resourcePath path to the resource
     * @return resource as InputStream
     */
    public static InputStream getResourceAsStream(String resourcePath) {
        return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getClass().getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
    }
}