[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Loading resources with getResource

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, be careful with the resource name here.

If you don't put in a leading slash then it will automatically prefix 
the name with package name of the class.

For example:

package x.y.z;

public class MyClass {

public void somemethod() {

  URI url = MyClass.class.getResource("abc.txt");
}

}

In this case, it will actually look for the resource "/x/y/z/abc.txt".
In other words if it is a relative path it will look in the directory 
where MyClass is found.

If you knew exactly where it was at then you should use "/abc.txt" instead.

This has tripped me up many times. :-)

Raja Kannappan wrote:
> Try MyClass.class.getResource(String resourceName) and make sure 
> resource is on your classpath.

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp