intellij why does `getResource` give me null? I ha...

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[mending3]

intellij
why does getResource give me null?
I have a .txt file in the same directory with MyClass.java
I print the class with this code

println(MyClass::class.java)

it returns me class com.myapp.vendors.lib.MyClass
However when I want to get the txt file with this code:

println(MyClass::class.java.getResource("my.txt"))

it returns me null

[edrd]

Resources must be inside the resources dir (or whatever dir is configured in your build file), not beside .java files:

src/
  main/
    java/
      MyClass.java
  resources/
    my.txt

[edrd]

Also, this is more of a general JVM/Java question. Maybe try SOstackoverflow

[Marc Knaup]

src/resources/com/myapp/vendors/lib/my.txt to be precise 🙂

[edrd]

Indeed, thanks Marc 🙂