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What about the API for Class?

I'm working on a custom ClassLoader. I'm attempting to implement the method ClassLoader.findResource() so that I can look in a special location for the named resource.

I'm trying to access this functionality thru the Class.getResource() method, which is supposed to delegate the call to ClassLoader.findResource(). I think there might be something wrong with the API description for Class.getResource(), which reads

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Finds a resource with a given name. This method returns null if no resource with this name is found. The rules for searching resources associated with a given class are implemented by the * defining class loader of the class.
This method delegates the call to its class loader, after making these changes to the resource name: if the resource name starts with "/", it is unchanged; otherwise, the package name is prepended to the resource name after converting "." to "/". If this object was loaded by the bootstrap loader, the call is delegated to ClassLoader.getSystemResource.
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That whole part about modifying the name of the resource doesn't seem to happen. The resulting call to ClassLoader.findResource() gives the same name as passed to Class.getResource(). I also looked at the code for those methods, and indeed they don't do any modifications on the name at all.

So I guess my question is whether I'm making some mistake in my understanding of that API. If not, why would that be in the documentation?


Now I need to figure out how to get a resource depending on what class requests it...
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