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 This

private BufferedImage get(String path) throws IOException{    
    URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(path);     
    String thing = url.getFile();       
    return ImageIO.read(new File(thing));      
}