[siagianfaber]

Dear all,

I have read a several articles about file operation is BB Java Development that reading a file must be started from the root directory :

Connector.open("file:///store/home/user...");

Let's say that a method tries to read a file from the "resource" directory of a project, means that it doesn't know the full path from /store/home/... to the resource directory.

Probably like this :

Connector.open("file:///resource/icon.jpg");

Is that possible? If not, why? Is there any another way to do that?

[hrbuckley]

You can't read project resources with a file connector like that. Use:

InputStream inputStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream( "/resource/icon.jpg" );

Or if what you want it the icon:

icon = Bitmap.getBitmapResource("/resource/icon.jpg");

[siagianfaber]

hi, thanks for your reply.

Actually i want to open an OutputStream for that file, means that i want to write some contents.

As long as i concern, and correct me if i'm wrong, the only way to open an OutputStream is through a FileConnection.

OutputStream os = ((FileConnection)Connector.open("file:///store/home/user/a.txt")).openOutputStream();

Do i miss something about IO API in JDE?

[Ivanov]

the only way to manipulate a precompiled file is to read it in a byte array and write it to the file system as file. You can then either manipulate it as long as it is in the array or when it is in the file system. You cannot write it back in your application cod.

[WonderfulRemote]

Dare I ask why are you trying to modify a resource that shipped in the .cod?
If your man enough to have a crack at modifying the byte code then more power to ya!
One sensible use case for this might be to scale images for a specific device. In such a case you can either:
1. Create separate app bundles for each and every device (quite tedious) or:
2. Scale the images etc and store copies of them on the filesystem.

Your app would need to check upon startup for the existence of these scaled images on the filesystem before it goes scaling at runtime, this would mean that you only take a one time startup performance hit to perform the image scaling.

[levantiep]

Dear All,

When i coding for reading csv & txt file, I have a problem similar with siagianfaber. And i have do follow everyone who have reply in this topic.
At last i have not reading csv & txt file. I'm using the "Blackberry JDE 4.7.0" tool and run it on Windown xp sp2. please help me if you know !

here is my code:

String filePath = "file:///store/home/user/test.txt";
FileConnection fc = (FileConnection)Connector.open(filePath,Connector. READ_WRITE);
if(!fc.exists()) {
throw new IOException("File does not exist");
}
InputStream is = fc.openInputStream();

Thanks & Best regards,
Tiep Le

[Kory Lovre]

Tiep Le,

From your question it is not clear whether you are trying to find a file that is on the BlackBerry or one that you created in your JDE project. If it is on the BlackBerry file system then this should work ok - you'd want to make sure that the file test.txt is really in the user directory. I haven't done this yet myself but I was able to read a new picture taken by the camera using the line

String filePath = "file:///SDCard/BlackBerry/pictures/test.jpg";
FileConnection fc = (FileConnection)Connector.open(filePath);

I'm still just using the 9000 simulator and the eclipse plug-in.
The actual photo when I select it and look at the Properties claims it is
at /Media Card/BlackBerry/pictures/test.jpg however.

If you are trying to access a file which you created in you project folder then see the post on BlackBerry's - Java Development - BlackBerry Support Community Forums titled (google blackberry and this title):

"Not able to read text or binary file"