[keycloak-dev] Why isn't the configuration/providers directory on my classpath when attempting to load a file?

[Stian Thorgersen]

The problem is in the library you're using as it shouldn't be using
the Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(). It should use
getClass().getResource or getClass().getClassLoader(). Is there a way
around it?

On 11 January 2016 at 23:24, Josh Cain <josh.cain at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of writing an SPI for a federation provider that relies
> on a third party library, and the library in turn uses a number of files.
> I placed my SPI .jar, the third party library .jar, as well as its required
> files in the keycloak-1.7.0.Final/standalone/configuration/providers
> directory.  However, when the third party library attempts to locate its
> required files on the classpath, it cannot find them.
>
> Just for a sanity check, I've placed the files places like the
> sun/jdk/main module on the AS, and observed that the files were picked up
> properly since that particular folder was on the classpath.
>
> Can anyone help me understand why those files are not being picked up as
> classpath resources?  Does the configuration/providers directory not get
> added to the classpath?
>
> Just FYI, I poked through the library a bit, and it doesn't seem to be
> doing anything strange.  It winds up doing the equivalent of:
>
> Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filePath);
>
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