Read file from resources folder in Spring Boot

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After spending a lot of time trying to resolve this issue, finally found a solution that works. The solution makes use of Spring’s ResourceUtils.
Should work for json files as well.

Thanks for the well written page by Lokesh Gupta : Blog

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package utils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.File;


public class Utils {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Utils.class.getName());

    public static Properties fetchProperties(){
        Properties properties = new Properties();
        try {
            File file = ResourceUtils.getFile("classpath:application.properties");
            InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
            properties.load(in);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            LOGGER.error(e.getMessage());
        }
        return properties;
    }
}

To answer a few concerns on the comments :

Pretty sure I had this running on Amazon EC2 using java -jar target/image-service-slave-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Look at my github repo : https://github.com/johnsanthosh/image-service
to figure out the right way to run this from a JAR.

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