reading from file in actual directory

[amasny]

Hello,
Im trying to read from file placed in directory where class is placed. I use this statement:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("subport.ini&quot)
I've got File not found exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: subport.ini (system cannot find file specified).
My question is:
How to specify file for read. I can't put direct path for FileReader constructor.
Greetings Arek

 

[byam]

How about this:

File baseDirectory = new File("C:/somedirectory");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(baseDirectory, "subport.ini"));

 

[sedj]

Skin that cat :

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("C:/somedirectory/subport.ini")));

 

[amasny]

Issue is that i cannot specify full path. I would like to specify only "subport.ini" which is in the same directory as
class read it.

 

[sedj]

I'm confused ...

Say your .class file is in C:\java\classes. Your ini file is here too.

You set your CLASSPATH to be %CLASSPATH%;C:\java\classes.

If you run "java MyClass" from C:\java\classes then you can say fine :

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("subport.ini"))

.

But if you run "java MyClass" from C:\anotherdir then it will look for your ini file in C:\anotherdir - not C:\java\classes.

So it depends on where you are running your class from - not whjere your class file is ...

 

[byam]

You can determine your class location at runtime. In the class which read your subport.ini:

String path = 
this.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path+"subport.ini"));

This way you can run your class in any directory and still can locate subport.ini.

 

[amasny]

Thanks a lot to all of you.
Mainly to "byam": it was what i needed

 

[varavoorvishnu]

Hi Byam ,
The code which u have given to find the location of classpath is simple awesome...
Its a good code..

vishnu
;-)