JAVA: FileInputStream and FileOutputStream

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gedO picture gedO · May 8, 2012 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I have this strange thing with input and output streams, whitch I just can't understand. I use inputstream to read properties file from resources like this:

Properties prop = new Properties();
InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream( "/resources/SQL.properties" );
rop.load(in);
return prop;

It finds my file and reds it succesfully. I try to write modificated settings like this:

prop.store(new FileOutputStream( "/resources/SQL.properties" ), null);

And I getting strange error from storing:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: \resources\SQL.properties (The system cannot find the path specified)

So why path to properties are changed? How to fix this? I am using Netbeans on Windows

Answer

Jim Garrison picture Jim Garrison · May 8, 2012

The problem is that getResourceAsStream() is resolving the path you give it relative to the classpath, while new FileOutputStream() creates the file directly in the filesystem. They have different starting points for the path.

In general you cannot write back to the source location from which a resource was loaded, as it may not exist in the filesystem at all. It may be in a jar file, for instance, and the JVM will not update the jar file.

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