The code snippet below use the FileUtils.toFile(URL)
method that can be found in the commons-io
library to convert a URL
into a File
. The url protocol should be file
or else null
will be returned.
package org.kodejava.example.commons.io;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
public class URLToFileObject {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// FileUtils.toFile(URL url) convert from URL the File.
String data = FileUtils.readFileToString(FileUtils.toFile(
URLToFileObject.class.getResource("/data.txt")), "UTF-8");
System.out.println("data = " + data);
// Creates a URL with file protocol and convert it into File object.
File file = FileUtils.toFile(new URL("file://D:/demo.txt"));
data = FileUtils.readFileToString(file, "UTF-8");
System.out.println("data = " + data);
}
}
Maven Dependencies
<!-- http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/2.6/commons-io-2.6.jar -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
</dependency>