annotation-resource-loader-spring

An example of how to create a custom annotation to load a Java resource into a String.

Example

Resource file located at:

/src/main/resources/query.sql

To load the query.sql into a String, apply the annotation as follows:

@Service
public class ExampleService {

  @StringResourceLoader("classpath:query.sql")
  public String sqlQuery;

  ...

}

Requirements

Install Java 8, then build and run with gradle:

./gradlew clean bootRun

The webserver calls ExampleService and shows the contents of the string that was loaded from the file resource:

http://localhost:8080