Not able to find *.xml file under Intellij

Question

I am trying to running some unit test cases that need to read spring xml configurations under Intellij, but Intellij failed with the following error.

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from class path resource [test.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [test.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

Under Intellij, my folder structure is:

src/main/java
src/main/test
src/main/spring

and text.xml file is under src/main/spring

The related java code that loads configuration file is:

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("test.xml")

I have searched for several posts and I have tried the following ways:

1) marked src/main/spring folder as "sources" or "resources".
2) added src/main/spring as a module under project structure.

but unfortunately, none of them is working.

My sourceSets in build.gradle setting is:

sourceSets {
    main {
        java {
            srcDir 'src/main/java'
        }
        proto {
            // In addition to the default "src/main/proto"
            srcDir "src/main/proto"
        }
    }

    test {
        java {
            srcDir 'src/main/test'
        }

        proto {
            srcDir "src/main/proto"
        }
    }
}

I am a newbie to Gradle and hopefully someone could give me a hint. Really appreciate!

`src/main/spring` needs to be added to the `resources`, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/20737466/104891. — CrazyCoder, Sep 11 '19 at 20:10

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '19 at 20:22

You need to add src/main/spring to the resources in build.gradle file, see the related answer.

sourceSets {
    main {
        java {
            srcDir 'src/main/java'
        }
 ...
        resources {
            srcDir 'src/main/spring'
        }
 ...
    }
}

Not able to find *.xml file under Intellij

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