Java – getresourceasstream() returns a stream with empty content

I have a small java project in eclipse The project has a SRC and bin folder (typical), and Src is added to the classpath I run on windows

The following calls are valid:

System.out.println(TestINI.class.getResource("happytest.ini"));

The path where it prints the file:

file:/D:/work/baton/Touch/JTouch/bin/com/interra/tests/happytest.ini

I checked the contents of the INI file mentioned above. It has the expected contents

But read from the file as follows:

InputStream is = TestINI.class.getResourceAsStream("happytest.ini");

Gave me an input stream without content That is, it returns a zero byte file

My eclipse is 3.6 Helios 64 bit running on Windows 7

Google search shows that the resource path or input stream is empty, but this is not the case

The classpath entries are as follows:

<classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
... other class path entries for libraries like ini4j
<classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>

Solution

That's what Jim garrison said - you edit the file in 'SRC' and read it from 'bin'