Reading data from properties file in java

Jesper k 44 44 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mark Elliot Mark Elliot 71k 19 19 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I did what you advised me but it still throws the same exception — nikos. Steven Gomez Steven Gomez 5 5 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. Don't forget to close the Reader in prop.

There are many methods in that link. Why did you choose the one with class loader? Are there any advantages or disadvantages of that method? You can use ResourceBundle class to read the properties file. Paul Vargas This approach is recommended for i18n. My use case is for Jenkins so it's nice to have a solution that doesn't rely upon a bunch of ClassPathLoader shenanigans. You can't use this keyword like - props.

Mukus Mukus 4, 2 2 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges. ApplicationContext is available only in case of Spring application — joro. Then load it as: props. Since your properties file is not at the root of your project, you don't need the leading slash. I was getting the exception thrown in the first place without the leading slash.

It's still not working. You can use java. Tarun Jain Tarun Jain 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. How to convert InputStream to File in java? I wanted to read. Examples: myClass. Mercer 9, 27 27 gold badges 93 93 silver badges bronze badges. If your properties file path and your java class path are same then you should this. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Oguzhan Cevik Oguzhan Cevik 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Luke Hutchison Luke Hutchison 6, 2 2 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges.

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But instead, what we can do here we can keep all these configuration parameters in the system. Skip to content. Change Language. Related Articles. Table of Contents. Improve Article. Save Article. Like Article. Last Updated : 29 Nov, Driver" ;.

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