Working on a Gradle project and I want to have loose data files so that more can be loaded on the fly.
I need to load these files from the Java application the Gradle project is made for.
How would I load files that are placed in the src/dist directory so they are still accessible when the program is packaged?
I ended up figuring out a method myself.
System.getProperty("user.dir")
gets the directory the program was launched from.
In a Gradle packaged project, that's the bin folder. You can just move up a directory from there.
Running it from an IDE it's the root project folder which is harder to deal with. A better method would be nice to have, but this works for now.