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

Try using the following

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