Use ClassLoader#getResource() instead if its URI represents a valid local disk file system path.
URL resource = classLoader.getResource("resource.ext");
File file = new File(resource.toURI());
FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(file);
// ...
If it doesn’t (e.g. JAR), then your best bet is to copy it into a temporary file.
Path temp = Files.createTempFile("resource-", ".ext");
Files.copy(classLoader.getResourceAsStream("resource.ext"), temp, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(temp.toFile());
// ...
That said, I really don’t see any benefit of doing so, or it must be required by a poor helper class/method which requires FileInputStream instead of InputStream. If you can, just fix the API to ask for an InputStream instead. If it’s a 3rd party one, by all means report it as a bug. I’d in this specific case also put question marks around the remainder of that API.