How to load resources from base module

[wzberger]

Hm, so how can ClassA access the resource from module com.b directly - 
without having a class instance of module b?

-Wolfgang

> On 18/05/2017 08:16, wzberger wrote:
>
>> :
>>
>> public class ClassA{
>>   public ClassA() {
>>     //success
>> System.out.println(getClass().getResource("/com/b/resources/test.txt"));
> The test creates an instance of ClassB (extends ClassA) and so 
> getClass() returns ClassB here, not ClassA. So when constructing a 
> ClassB then this is equivalent to ClassB.class.getResource(...).
>
>>
>>     //fail - null
>> System.out.println(ClassA.class.getResource("/com/b/resources/test.txt")); 
>>
> Right, as this resource is not in the com.a module. Change this to 
> ClassB.class.getResource(...) and it should work.
>
> -Alan
>
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