resourceextractor4j

Little Java library for making it easy to extract/read resources on the classpath.

Methods

Extracting files

The com.github.fracpete.resourceextractor4j.Files class has the following static methods:

• extractTo - copies a single resource to an output directory
• extractTo - copies the resources provided as list to an output directory (when resources are in sub-directories, these will get recreated in the output directory)

Reading content

The com.github.fracpete.resourceextractor4j.Content class has the following static methods:

• readBytes - reads the resources as byte array
• readLines - interprets the resource as text file and returns the lines
• readProperties - populates a java.util.Properties object with the resource
• readString - reads the resource as single string (with or without java.nio.charset.Charset)

Maven

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.github.fracpete</groupId>
      <artifactId>resourceextractor4j</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1</version>
    </dependency>