junit test should use main/resources

Question

I have a problem with maven and JUnit testing.

I have some files in src/main/resources and when running junit tests I want to these files. Only one test specific file with slightly different settings should overrule a corresponding file. So my idea was to give this test-file the same name like the main-file and put it file under src/test/resources at the same (corresponding) place like the main-file. But now I have the problem, that I cant use all the other files from src/main/resources.

I thought they junit test would coppy them default into target/test-classes/ when running ernriced by the files from src/test/resources, but it doesnt. There is only the file from src/test/resources and not other.

Thanks for any ideas, how I could solf this problem.

here an example how I try to access the files

'

@BeforeClass
public static void globalSetUp() throws NamingException, SQLException {
    System.setProperty("solr.solr.home", "/solr/");

    cores = new CoreContainer(
            "/home/foo/workspace/reporting/target/test-classes/solr");
    cores.load();
    server = new EmbeddedSolrServer(cores, "reporting");

    loadDriver();
    connection = createAndConnectToDB();
    createDBSchema();

}

'

You still have not given us enough information. Try posting code to show how you are trying to load these files. — John B
I edited my inital post, showing how I refer to the files in src/main/resources. Thanks for your thoghts! — MrLang
I do not see anything that seems to be referring to files in /src/main/resources — John B
Ok, but I thought the files from /src/main/resources will be copied to /target/test-classes when running a junit test. — MrLang
You should load them from "src/main/resources/myFile" or if using a classpath loader "classpath:myFile" — John B

MrLang MrLang · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-07T09:03:51

The problem was in pom.xml. /main/resources was not as testResource.

Here's the snippet that solved my problem:

<build>
    <testResources>
      <testResource>
        <directory>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources</directory>
      </testResource>
      <testResource>
        <directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
      </testResource>
    </testResources>
</build>

junit test should use main/resources

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