Re: Executable JAR files and writing to a text file.
On 2/12/2015 12:40 PM, Doug Mika wrote:
I have an application in which it writes to a text file at a specific
directory location. I run the program and it runs fine! Now I create
an executable JAR file. Should the jar file work fine if the program
needs to write to a text file in ../resources/HighScore.txt?
One potential problem is that ../resources/HighScore.txt is
not relative to the location of the jar file but relative to
the default dir of the process running the program.
For illustration try run this program with a default dir
that is different from code location dir.
import java.io.File;
public class WhatDir {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String relfnm = "../subdir/filename.txt";
String p1 = new File(relfnm).getAbsolutePath();
System.out.println(p1);
String p2 = new File(relfnm).getCanonicalPath();
System.out.println(p2);
String p3 = new
File(WhatDir.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath()
+ relfnm).getAbsolutePath();
System.out.println(p3);
String p4 = new
File(WhatDir.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath()
+ relfnm).getCanonicalPath();
System.out.println(p4);
}
}
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