Image class and paths relative to classpath

[Daniel Zwolenski]

An alternative to the separate method is to define a 'classpath' protocol as part of the URL:

Image image = new Image("classpath:/foo/bar.png"); 

This is common in Spring and seems quite nice to me. It has the advantage of working with constructors and is fully backwards compatible. 

I could live with a new method if that was the preference though. 


On 23/04/2012, at 10:58 PM, Martin Sladecek <martin.sladecek at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> JIRA: http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-18291
> 
> this JIRA request is about adding support for "URL" in Image constructor that is interpreted as a classpath-relative path when a leading slash is present.
> However, this is currently interpreted as absolute file URL.
> 
> In order not to break current behaviour I propose to introduce new set of static factory methods.
> 
> Image.fromClassPath(String path, double requestedWidth, double requestedHeight, boolean preserveRatio, boolean smooth, boolean backgroundLoading);
> 
> + overloaded method similar to Image constructors.
> 
> The idea is to interpret paths with leading slash as absolute to the classpath root (basically the same as Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(path) ), while relative paths might be interpreted as relative to the caller class. So Image.fromClassPath("duke.jpg") called from myapplication.Application will look for the file in myapplication package.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -Martin