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Thorinwasher

Accessing multiple files from internal resources

I have a lot of files that are packaged into the jar, I'm using these for something like a data based approach (I guess). And now I'd like to easily move them outside the jar, so that it can be modified by others. What would the best approach be here? My initial thought was that I use json formatted files in the jar that kind of show what files that are in directories, but this gets impractical with large amount of files/directories. I'm now thinking, should I use a zip file as an internal resource with all the relevant content, but this gets a bit hard to access when I want to modify this content. What's your opinion on how to proceed?
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Thorinwasher
ThorinwasherOP•2mo ago
Just doing this worked. thanks @Thorinwasher 
processResources {
        mustRunAfter("zipResources")
    }

    register("zipResources") {
        zipTo(File("./src/main/resources/plants.zip"), File("./src/main/ziped-resources"))
    }
}
processResources {
        mustRunAfter("zipResources")
    }

    register("zipResources") {
        zipTo(File("./src/main/resources/plants.zip"), File("./src/main/ziped-resources"))
    }
}
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Solved it myself

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