Thread: Java relative path of a static class

Hello everyone!

For my 'tanks' game which I am developing in Java I need to read a text file in which the map's data is stored.
I made a new class for this called 'MapReader'.
However, I would like to be able to use the 'read' function of the class without instantiating a new MapReader object.
That's why I made it a static class.

Now my problem is that I can't seem to find a way to get the relative path which is needed to load the file.
If it weren't static I would just be able to use new File(getClass().getResource("/maps/map.txt"));

Thank you for your answer Copeg!

I've already tried your solution and thought it was wrong.
Now I realise I was looking at it the wrong way and that it actually works.. (:

But the reason it wouldn't work was that I had a space character in the path!

If I printed out the path it would replace the space character by a '%20' (hex for 32, which is it's ASCII code!)

I solved the problem by simply removing the space character.
But.. if I really wanted to keep the space for some reason, would the best solution be finding the path this way and then converting the %20 to a space character?