'java getResource() not working

this is driving me crazy. I have a NetBeans project in a folder with the following structure:

MyProject
---- build
---- src
---- resources

in src my code is in packages. What I am trying to do is to use

getClass().getResource("/resources/new.png");

from a class in package com.my.package but it just refuses to work! The "new.png" image is in the resources folder. Am I missing something here?

After a lot of playing around and moving the "new.png" image here and there to see when it will find the image, it finally worked but only when I put the image in the build folder. So what do I have to do to make this work ?

edit: sorry, wrong String in method parameter. Corrected now

javaurlembedded-resource


Solution 1:[1]

This works fine:

BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("file_name"));

Solution 2:[2]

look out with ImageIO.read(getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("file_name"));

...on windows you will get a URL encoded string, with %20 for spaces, so if you want to use that path to load a file, first call pathString.replace("%20", " ") ...that $hice just nailed me in live!

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Solution 1 S. Esteves
Solution 2 tom

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