java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: input == null! when using ImageIO.read to load image as bufferedImage

Question

This is a question that has been asked like 100 times on this site, but I have looked at all of them and even though they all were solved, none of the solutions worked for m

Answer 1

The path passed as the argument to getResourceAsStream() should be relative to the classpath set. So try changing this

this.icon = ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/resources/" + imgName));

to

this.icon = ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("resources/" + imgName));