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Keno
Keno

Reputation: 2098

Unable to locate/open image inside exported jar

I have explored every single solution related to this problem on Stack Overflow, and the solutions I encountered worked only in my IDE (Eclipse Mars), but when exported they all failed.

I have an image file I simply want to load from inside my exported jar.

Project Setup

As you can see from the project layout, Images is a folder directly inside of the project folder CooldownTrackerJava. To refer to it, I've tried a variety of methods.

//My class' name is AddItemDialog

//Method 1
String filePath = File.separator + "Images" + File.separator + "questionMark.png";
InputStream inputStream = AddItemDialog.class.getResourceAsStream(filePath);
BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(inputStream);

I tried method 1 in a few ways. I tried it with and without the File.separator at the start of the filePath. I understand that the former refers to an absolute path, while the latter is relative. I also tried moving the Images folder inside of the directory where my class files were.

All of these failed giving me a NullPointerException when exported and tested multiple times.

//Method 2
String saveLocation = File.separator + "Images" + File.separator + "questionMark.png";    
Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource(saveLocation));

As per this post I tried the above method however it still did not work.

I've tried many variations aside from the ones mentioned in this post but none of them have been successful when I exported the jar.

Do I need to add the Images folder to my build path? Should I move it to the src folder? Am I missing one obvious step? All suggestions would be highly appreciated. Also here is the layout of the exported jar file.

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 455

Answers (1)

Keno
Keno

Reputation: 2098

The solution was a two-part effort. Firstly, I moved my Images folder into the src directory as shown below. Kudos to Matthew.

enter image description here

I then removed File.separator and replaced it with a forward slash/. Thanks to fge.

Do not use File.separator(). Separators for resource paths on the class path is always /. If you use Windows you will therefore always get the wrong result.

I used a variant of method 1 to test it. Both methods will work though.

String saveLocation = "/Images/questionMark.png";
InputStream inputStream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(saveLocation);
try {
    BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(inputStream);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Upvotes: 2

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