Trying to figure out how to list files from a Java Resources folder is hard, there are tons of solutions on StackOverflow, however most of them are weird hacks and they only work when executing your app via your IDE, or when executing your app via the command line, not both.

Joop Eggen's answer is awesome, however it can only do one of two things:

• Read the resources content when running from a IDE
• Read the resources content when running the JAR via the command line

So here's an example (Kotlin, but it should be easy to migrate it to Java) that allows you to have both: Reading the resources content when running from a IDE or via the command line!

    val uri = MainApp::class.java.getResource("/locales/").toURI()
    val dirPath = try {
        Paths.get(uri)
    } catch (e: FileSystemNotFoundException) {
        // If this is thrown, then it means that we are running the JAR directly (example: not from an IDE)
        val env = mutableMapOf<String, String>()
        FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env).getPath("/locales/")
    }

    Files.list(dirPath).forEach {
        println(it.fileName)
        if (it.fileName.toString().endsWith("txt")) {
            println("Result:")
            println(Files.readString(it))
        }
    }

StackOverflow Post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67839914/7271796

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