I’m trying to read resource files during unit test...

# multiplatform

[jean]

I’m trying to read resource files during unit tests. I have an except function like so :

internal expect fun readResourceFile(resourceName: String): ByteArray

This is the jvm implementation :

actual fun readResourceFile(resourceName: String) =
    File("./src/commonTest/resources/$resourceName").readBytes()

I wonder how I’m supposed to implement it for my js target? I tried to use this :

js("require('../../../resources/main/$resourceName')")

but it complains that the string must be a constant. And the return type is dynamic which doesn’t help neither

[hfhbd]

Do you target node.JS? Then use the file/io api. Otherwise, you can't load a file in the browser (except the experimental localfile API) If you want to refer to kotlin resources from the browser, you need to refer them statically (otherwise webpack will remove them) and add some map to fetch them dynamically

[jean]

I’m targeting the browser. Maybe I need something like this to be sure they are not removed?

tasks.register<Copy>("copyJsTestResources") {
    from("src/commonTest/resources")
    into("build/bin/iosX64/debugTest/resources") // this is for ios, what would be the equivalent for js?
}

tasks.findByName("jsTest")!!.dependsOn("copyJsTestResources")