On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 14:42, Sam Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> consider there exists foo.jar on Clojars which contains a bunch of asset 
> files i.e. png images. If I were to declare foo as one of my project's 
> dependencies, is it possible to get access to those asset files? I 
> essentially want a path to a non-zipped version of each asset.

These kinds of assets are known as "resources" in java parlance. A
resource is named by a path relative to an entry in the classpath.
Declaring foo as a dependency will place it in the classpath. The name
of the resource will therefore be the path of the asset within
foo.jar.

Give clojure.java.io/resource [1] that name, and it will return a URL.

Pass that URL to clojure.java.io/input-stream [2] to open the resource
for reading.

[1] 
http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.java.io-api.html#clojure.java.io/resource

[2] 
http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.java.io-api.html#clojure.java.io/input-stream

hth,
Ben

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