referring to file in a relative way

[angelochen960]

Hi,

in Unit test, my test class is in:

src/test/java/org/...

and I offer need to refer to a file in
src/test/data

following is how i specify, but that's absolute path, any way to refer
it relatively so that I can move the test around? Thanks

String filename = "/Users/angelochen/testt5/myProject/src/test/data/
info.txt";

 

[Roedy Green]

following is how i specify, but that's absolute path, any way to refer
it relatively so that I can move the test around? Thanks

one way to do it is carry your filenames around in two pieces, and
glue them together with the File constructor.
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[Angelo Chen]

I use:

userdir = System.getProperties("user.dir");

that works, was thinking if there is a simpler way.

 

[Hal Rosser]

Hi,

in Unit test, my test class is in:

src/test/java/org/...

and I offer need to refer to a file in
src/test/data

following is how i specify, but that's absolute path, any way to refer
it relatively so that I can move the test around? Thanks

String filename = "/Users/angelochen/testt5/myProject/src/test/data/
info.txt";

If you're in the org directory then
File theFile = new File("../../data/info.txt");
Then you can use methods of the File class to get the absolute path, etc if
you need it.
Each dot-dot-slash takes you to the parent directory of wherever you happen
to be,
HTH.

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

Hi,

in Unit test, my test class is in:

src/test/java/org/...

and I offer need to refer to a file in
src/test/data

following is how i specify, but that's absolute path, any way to refer
it relatively so that I can move the test around? Thanks

String filename = "/Users/angelochen/testt5/myProject/src/test/data/
info.txt";

Take the part of the path that's likely to change and make it a property
in a property file somewhere. You can take this a bit further if you're
changing the location of tests within a project, and the project
location is itself changing...just use two properties.

AHS

 

[Lew]

If you're in the org directory then
File theFile = new File("../../data/info.txt");
Then you can use methods of the File class to get the absolute path, etc if
you need it.
Each dot-dot-slash takes you to the parent directory of wherever you happen
to be,

Which if it's close to the root will cause a problem.

Use of parent-directory relative references is not very safe. One
should ensure that all program resources are in a subdirectory of the
working directory so that "dot-dot-slash" is never used.