How to get the full path of the properties file loaded by my application?

[Jeevan Sunkersett]

My app is a Web application, employs Spring, Apache CXF, ... and is deployed on Tomcat-7.
In META-INF\context.xml I specify an additional class-path element
<Context> <Loader className="org.apache.catalina.loader.VirtualWebappLoader" virtualClasspath="/opt/xyz/config/" searchVirtualFirst="false"> </Loader> </Context>

At initialization time, it loads up a property file, (using PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer)
from within the jar/ war as well as from the file system (if found in the additional class-path)
For this I have used the following

<bean id="cnsproperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"> <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true" /> <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true" /> <property name="locations"> <list> <value>classpath*:myConfig.properties</value> <!-- Note: The '*' in the <value>classpath*:myConfig.properties... --> </list> </property> </bean>

The logs specifically say;
Loading properties file from URL [jar:file:/D:/WMSandbox/tools/apache-tomcat-7.0.40/wtpwebapps/Myserver-web/WEB-INF/lib/Myserver-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/myConfig.properties]
Loading properties file from URL [file:/D:/opt/xyz/config/myConfig.properties]

But the path(s) are (is) only getting printed in the log.
At run time, I need the exact file:/ path in a variable - how can I get that?

Using

                ClassLoader cl = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
    	        URL[] urls = ((URLClassLoader)cl).getURLs();
                

gave me only the exact paths of the jar's used by my application but not the file:/ path of the property file (loaded from the file system/ outside the .jar)

Any clues, how I can get the full path of the property file (loaded from the file system)

Thank you
g1

[krishna atok]

Hi Jeevan,
Configure a bean as below
<bean id="test" class="TestClass">
<property name="propertyLoader" ref="cnsproperties" />
</bean>

With the above you will the propertyplaceholderconfigurer object and play with it using the getter methods or inbuilt methods contianed by this class. Hope you should be able to get the desired output. Let me know the results.