getResourceAsStream works differently on Mac OSX vs. Windows 7?
java, macos, properties, unit-testing, windows
Solution
The separator in resource names is always '/'. `File.separator` varies from platform to platform (on UNIX variants it will generally be `/`, on Windows it will not).
Problem
I have a set of unit test cases that depend on a test.properties file. When I run the tests under Mac OSX or Linux using Maven ('mvn test'), they work fine. But when running under Windows 7, they can't find the file unless I copy it directly to the class folder. The code to return the properties is the following two methods: ``` private void loadProperties() { try { properties.load(HibernateTestCase.class.getResourceAsStream(getPropertiesFilePath())); } catch (Exception ioExc) { ioExc.printStackTrace(); } } private String getPropertiesFilePath() { return File.separator + "test.properties"; } ``` What's the real deal here? Is it all about the file path being set wrong somewhere? Thanks in advance!