Image is not loading until restart application - spring-boot

Question

After upload an image to location dataBaseTest\src\main\resources\static\uploads\ I can't display it on webpage, until application is restarted. I know it's because folder static is loaded only when server is starting, but how can it be solved? I've tried to upload image directly to \dataBaseTest\target\classes\static\uploads\ and it is working fine (loading immedietaly after upload), but it's just not seems to be correct. Also I tried to add
<configuration>
<addResources>true</addResources>
</configuration>
to "pom.xml" but nothing has changed.
I've also tried to use addResourceHandlers but whole folder static seems to stop working.
I'm using Spring boot dev Tools, so the app is restarting automatically, but I'm trying to solve it without any restart.
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error code
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I'm running this app in intellij Tomcat.
this is my FileUploadService
public String uploadImage(MultipartFile multipartFile) throws IOException {
String fileName = multipartFile.getOriginalFilename();
Path uploadDirectory = Paths.get("src/main/resources/static/uploads/");
//Path uploadDirectory = Paths.get("target\\classes\\static\\uploads\\");
try (InputStream inputStream = multipartFile.getInputStream()) {
String path = UUID.randomUUID()+ "-" + fileName;
Path filePath = uploadDirectory.resolve(path);
Files.copy(inputStream, filePath, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
return path;
} catch (IOException ioException){
throw new IOException("Error saving uploaded file: " + fileName, ioException);
}
}
this is controller
public String displayArticles(Model model){
final String currentName = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getName();
System.out.println(currentName);
model.addAttribute("currentUser", currentName);
model.addAttribute("articles", repoArticle.findAll());
model.addAttribute("comments", commentService.findAll());
model.addAttribute("likes", repoLikes.findByUsername(currentName));
return "display_articles";
}
this is html
<div class="image">
<img th:src="'../uploads/' + ${article.path}" alt="">
</div>
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Answer 1

This should save your image directly to /target folder and thus make it immediately available (note that both the application resources and code are stored in /target when the app is running)
//use the class loader to get the resource path, rather than hardcoding it
final String uploadLocation = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("static/uploads").toString();
//we should get rid of file:/, hence the substring
final Path uploadDirectory = Paths.get(uploadLocation.substring(6, uploadLocation.length()) );
The rest of the code can remain the same.
Alternatively, you can specify your own upload folder. For instance,
application.properties
#user home should be present on any computer
files.upload.location=${user.home}/myApp/fileUpload
You would then simply retrive it in your controller,
#Autowired
private Environment environment;
...
final String uploadLocation = environment.getProperty("files.upload.location");
Hope this helps.