Physical Location of a file in classpath?

1. a file with a given name;
2. the file is located in the file system;
3. the file can be loaded via the classpath;

How can the code figure out the physical location (ie absolute path) of the file ?

(Don't peek if you want to give it a try!)

Answer:

    String filePath = Thread.currentThread()

                           .getContextClassLoader()

                           .getResource(filename)

                           .getFile();


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