BAEL-1978: Added a test to demostrate classpath resource with relative path

Author: Yatendra Goel

spring-core/src/test/java/com/baeldung/resource/SpringResourceIntegrationTest.java

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
@@ -23,6 +25,8 @@
 import org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader;
 import org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils;
 
+import com.baeldung.dependson.config.TestConfig;
+
 /**
  * Test class illustrating various methods of accessing a file from the classpath using Resource.
  * @author tritty
@@ -98,4 +102,19 @@ public void whenResourceAsFile_thenReadSuccessful() throws IOException {
         final String employees = new String(Files.readAllBytes(resource.toPath()));
         assertEquals(EMPLOYEES_EXPECTED, employees);
     }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void whenClassPathResourceWithAbsoultePath_thenReadSuccessful() throws IOException {
+    	final File resource = new ClassPathResource("/data/employees.dat", this.getClass()).getFile();
+        final String employees = new String(Files.readAllBytes(resource.toPath()));
+        assertEquals(EMPLOYEES_EXPECTED, employees);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void whenClassPathResourceWithRelativePath_thenReadSuccessful() throws IOException {
+//    	final File resource = new ClassPathResource("../../../data/employees.dat", SpringResourceIntegrationTest.class).getFile();
+    	final File resource = new ClassPathResource("/data/employees.dat", SpringResourceIntegrationTest.class).getFile();
+        final String employees = new String(Files.readAllBytes(resource.toPath()));
+        assertEquals(EMPLOYEES_EXPECTED, employees);
+    }
 }