Are there no standard function to receive files fr...

# compose

[Geert]

Are there no standard function to receive files from the resources folder? I have some json files included, but I can only find functions for imageassets, not for text.

[Joost Klitsie]

What does a UI framework has to do with json files?

[André Kindwall]

There is stringResource for strings.xml resources. If you want to get json assets then you can always get context with ContextAmbient.current

[Joost Klitsie]

I mean there are ways in Android to get files, and then there are ways to remember actions in compose. I'd say, you should combine it. I think if you check the code of the image asset loading you can probably make your own composable file loader

[Geert]

@André Kindwall yeah I know. I was just wondering why there wasn’t a standard function

[Geert]

But what @Joost Klitsie said, it is a UI framework

[Geert]

I’m looking into it to much from an android perspective I guess

[Joost Klitsie]

if you open androidx.compose.ui.res.ImageResource.kt I think you can copy/paste the code and adjust what you need. It looks like loadResource might help you out

[Javier]

@Geert load a json from resources folder is not even an Android thing, you can achieve it with an extension function which only depends on JVM.

[Javier]

fun Any.readResource(file: String): String = this::class.java.classLoader.getResource(file)!!.readText()

[Javier]

for example for reading the text of your json files

[Geert]

Thank you! This is a nice option, never used classloaders before, except for testing.

[Javier]

Yeah, I use it for testing too, that is the reason I use !!