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Hi, I'm trying to use this._javaClass_.getResource to read a resource from my resource folder but I always get null. Can anyone help (details in thread)?

I've added a folder 'src/test/resources' to my project and put a file dummy.pdf in it.
I try to read this as a resource in my test class with
```val resource = this.javaClass.getResource("dummy.pdf")```
but I only get null. When I get the current directory for the test with `.getResource(".")` I see that it is the package directory under `build/classes/kotlin/test` . So if I use
```val resource = this.javaClass.getResource("../../../../../../../../resources/test/dummy.pdf")```
it works, but that seems impractical. Is it really supposed to work this way?

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`this.javaClass.getResource("dummy.pdf")` fetches a path relative to the path of the compiled file in the assembled JAR.

The assembled JAR is the contents of both `src/main/resources` and the compiled sources in `src/main/kotlin/` combined together, but each Kotlin file will be placed into a directory matching the package.

A file `src/main/resources/foo/bar/my/application/dummy.pdf` will be copied into the JAR with a path of `/foo/bar/my/application/dummy.pdf`.

A class with an FQN of `<http://foo.bar.my|foo.bar.my>.application.MyClass` will be compiled into the JAR with a path of `/foo/bar/my/application/MyClass.class`

So `MyClass::class.javaClass.getResource("dummy.pdf")` will try and load a file _relative_ to `/foo/bar/my/application/`, and that file doesn’t exist. Instead, you can load a file with an absolute path by adding a leading `/`

```this.javaClass.getResource("/foo/bar/my/application/dummy.pdf")```
or try and add enough `../`’s to navigate to the correct path. Or put `dummy.pdf` into a resources dir that matches the class package.

That works like a charm :slightly_smiling_face: . Thanks for your reply!

I now use <https://github.com/goncalossilva/kotlinx-resources> as this works also multiplatform.