How to read a text file from resources in Kotlin?

Question

I want to write a Spek test in Kotlin. The test should read an HTML file from the src/test/resources folder. How to do it?

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Answer 1

No idea why this is so hard, but the simplest way I've found (without having to refer to a particular class) is:

fun getResourceAsText(path: String): String {
    return object {}.javaClass.getResource(path).readText()
}

And then passing in an absolute URL, e.g.

val html = getResourceAsText("/www/index.html")