How to read a text file from resources in Kotlin?

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? =
    object {}.javaClass.getResource(path)?.readText()

It returns null if no resource with this name is found (as documented).

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

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

val fileContent = MySpec::class.java.getResource("/html/file.html").readText()

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