Jar file entry - file on users machine

Question

Hi,
I am having trouble with the formatting of a file when I attempt to copy it from a jar file to a user directory. It copies the file to the correct dir, but somehow removes all newlines. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
The code is posted below. The ResourceManager just uses the getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream() method to return an InputStream object to the jarred-up file.
  public static void loadLocalDatabase()
    try
      File rootdirectory = new File(getRootDir());
      if(!rootdirectory.exists())
        rootdirectory.mkdir();
      // load the database file from the local database jar
      // into a file on the users local machine
      File output = new File(rootdirectory, databaseFilename);
      if(output.exists())
        return; // if the database file exists, we dont want to overwrite it
      FileInputStream databaseOriginal = new FileInputStream(ResourceManager.getInputStream(databaseFilename));
      byte[] file = new byte[databaseOriginal.available()];
      databaseOriginal.read(file);  // put the contents into the array
      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(output); // write the contents out.
      fos.write(file);
      fos.flush();
      fos.close();     
    catch(Exception e)
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      e.printStackTrace();
  }Thanks,
Dave Smith

Answer 1

Ah. Just a little update: that FileInputStream should just be an InputStream