clojure how to know the path of a folder / file / directory in one project?

Question

Assume there is two files inside my clojure project, one clj and the other is txt. Is there a way to know the path (as a string) of the txt file from the clj file?

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Answer 1

In Java and therefore Clojure you can find files on the CLASSPATH. For example, in Java it is common to put things like log4j.properties at the top of your CLASSPATH (e.g., in the classes directory) and then you can reference the file in your Clojure (or Java) code with:

(java.io.File. "log4j.properties")

Are you using and running your app with Leiningen? If so, you can create a directory at the top level and put files there. For example, if you have a config file you can have a "conf" dir with a properties files:

my-lein-proj$ ls
conf  doc  project.clj  README.md  src  target  test

Suppose you put a myproj.conf file in the conf directory and you want to read from it in your Clojure code. Then you can just do:

(slurp "conf/myproj.conf")