How to Get the Path of Src/Test/Resources Directory in Junit

JUNIT not identifying resources under src/test folder

you can use classLoader like this :

ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
File file = new File(classLoader.getResource("somefile").getFile());
System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath());

Regards.

Why Can't I access src/test/resources in Junit test run with Maven?

Access MainConfig.xml directly. The src/test/resources directory contents are placed in the root of your CLASSPATH.

More precisely: contents of src/test/resources are copied into target/test-classes, so if you have the following project structure:

.
└── src
    └── test
        ├── java
        │   └── foo
        │       └── C.java
        └── resources
            ├── a.xml
            └── foo
                └── b.xml

It will result with the following test CLASSPATH contents:

/foo/C.class
/a.xml
/foo/b.xml

To actually access the files from Java source, use
getClass().getResource("/MainConfig.xml").getFile().

Java path to file in src/main/resources

The problem was that I have not included the resource in the maven build in pom file. When I included the following it worked with abcManager.class.getResource("/abc.access")

<build>
    <resources>
      <resource>
                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>abc.access</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>
    </resources>   
</build>

Unable to access test resources from junit tests

Alright so Timo was able to figure it out. I hadn't rebuilt the project for a while (:facepalm:). Coming from the python world here, where things are a little different. Thanks for working through this with me everyone, it really means a lot!

file not found on path src/test/resources/

You should never depend on File. Load InputStream from classpath.

Both src/main/resources and src/test/resources are in the classpath if you use the Maven standard directory structure.

I tend to like the Apache Commons IO library and Spring ClassPathResource.