How to load xml config file from WEB-INF

[Gurkirat Singh]

I have my hazelcast-config.xml in WEB-INF along with other config files.

I tried to give the custom config file path to 2nd level cache by below property as described in the hazelcast documentation.

<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_configuration_file_resource_path">

{path to applicationContext-hazelcast.xml}

</property>

But I'm getting following exception:

ERROR 14-Sep-16 11:33:36 ContextLoader:initWebApplicationContext:308 Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name ... nested exception is org.hibernate.cache.CacheException: org.hibernate.cache.CacheException: Could not find configuration file: WEB-INF/hazelcast.xml

Any suggestions how can I load my config file from WEB-INF?

[t...@hazelcast.com]

If you're willing to debug it the config is loaded here:

https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-hibernate/blob/master/hazelcast-hibernate4/src/main/java/com/hazelcast/hibernate/instance/HazelcastClientLoader.java#L56

it uses the ConfigLoader.locateConfig(resource);

https://github.com/tombujok/hazelcast/blob/4276c33b969661dc2e9b03f08dccfb52d8a7d148/hazelcast-client/src/main/java/com/hazelcast/client/config/XmlClientConfigBuilder.java#L90-L90

It boils down to:

https://github.com/tombujok/hazelcast/blob/106e89f207ef891e0b4b7fae736abf91e171a3cd/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/hazelcast/config/ConfigLoader.java#L44-L63

It's always tricky what path to put there in order to make the resource to be loaded.

Other option is to try to put slash before the /WEB-INF/ as they use here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108434/howto-load-a-resource-from-web-inf-directory-of-a-web-archive

[mukul panwar]

There is another way you can put your hazelcast.xml file in WEB-INF/classes/ folder and load it by mentioning as "classpath:hazelcast.xml" in your configuration.

Thanks