Don't use a generated feature for resources

core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/steps/NativeImageAutoFeatureStep.java

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildProducer;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.GeneratedNativeImageClassBuildItem;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.GeneratedResourceBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.ForceNonWeakReflectiveClassBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.JniRuntimeAccessBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.NativeImageProxyDefinitionBuildItem;
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@
 import io.quarkus.gizmo.ResultHandle;
 import io.quarkus.gizmo.TryBlock;
 import io.quarkus.runtime.ResourceHelper;
+import io.quarkus.runtime.graal.ResourcesFeature;
 
 public class NativeImageAutoFeatureStep {
 
@@ -74,13 +77,29 @@ public class NativeImageAutoFeatureStep {
     static final String LEGACY_LOCALIZATION_FEATURE = "com.oracle.svm.core.jdk.LocalizationFeature";
     static final String LOCALIZATION_FEATURE = "com.oracle.svm.core.jdk.localization.LocalizationFeature";
 
+    @BuildStep
+    GeneratedResourceBuildItem generateNativeResourcesList(List<NativeImageResourceBuildItem> resources,
+            BuildProducer<NativeImageResourcePatternsBuildItem> resourcePatternsBuildItemBuildProducer) {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        for (NativeImageResourceBuildItem i : resources) {
+            for (String r : i.getResources()) {
+                sb.append(r);
+                sb.append("\n");
+            }
+        }
+        //we don't want this file in the final image
+        resourcePatternsBuildItemBuildProducer.produce(NativeImageResourcePatternsBuildItem.builder()
+                .excludePattern(ResourcesFeature.META_INF_QUARKUS_NATIVE_RESOURCES_TXT).build());
+        return new GeneratedResourceBuildItem(ResourcesFeature.META_INF_QUARKUS_NATIVE_RESOURCES_TXT,
+                sb.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    }
+
     @BuildStep
     void generateFeature(BuildProducer<GeneratedNativeImageClassBuildItem> nativeImageClass,
             List<RuntimeInitializedClassBuildItem> runtimeInitializedClassBuildItems,
             List<RuntimeInitializedPackageBuildItem> runtimeInitializedPackageBuildItems,
             List<RuntimeReinitializedClassBuildItem> runtimeReinitializedClassBuildItems,
             List<NativeImageProxyDefinitionBuildItem> proxies,
-            List<NativeImageResourceBuildItem> resources,
             List<NativeImageResourcePatternsBuildItem> resourcePatterns,
             List<NativeImageResourceBundleBuildItem> resourceBundles,
             List<ReflectiveMethodBuildItem> reflectiveMethods,
@@ -195,13 +214,6 @@ public void write(String s, byte[] bytes) {
             }
         }
 
-        for (NativeImageResourceBuildItem i : resources) {
-            for (String j : i.getResources()) {
-                overallCatch.invokeStaticMethod(ofMethod(ResourceHelper.class, "registerResources", void.class, String.class),
-                        overallCatch.load(j));
-            }
-        }
-
         /* Resource includes and excludes */
         if (!resourcePatterns.isEmpty()) {
             ResultHandle resourcesRegistrySingleton = overallCatch.invokeStaticMethod(IMAGE_SINGLETONS_LOOKUP,

core/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/runtime/graal/ResourcesFeature.java

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package io.quarkus.runtime.graal;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+import org.graalvm.nativeimage.hosted.Feature;
+
+import com.oracle.svm.core.annotate.AutomaticFeature;
+
+import io.quarkus.runtime.ResourceHelper;
+
+@AutomaticFeature
+public class ResourcesFeature implements Feature {
+
+    public static final String META_INF_QUARKUS_NATIVE_RESOURCES_TXT = "META-INF/quarkus-native-resources.txt";
+
+    @Override
+    public void beforeAnalysis(BeforeAnalysisAccess access) {
+        try (BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
+                getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(META_INF_QUARKUS_NATIVE_RESOURCES_TXT)))) {
+            String line;
+            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
+                if (!line.isEmpty()) {
+                    ResourceHelper.registerResources(line);
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}

integration-tests/main/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/main/ResourcesITCase.java

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ public void excludedNative() {
                 .get("/resources/test-resources/excluded/unwanted.txt")
                 .then()
                 .statusCode(404);
+
+        RestAssured.when()
+                .get("/resources/META-INF/quarkus-native-resources.txt")
+                .then()
+                .statusCode(404);
     }
 
 }