#Dotenv Help

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sly holly
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Hi. I'm new to Maven with Java. I'm trying to use a .env file I created inside of my package using io.github.cdimascio.dotenv.Dotenv. Could someone please give me a hand?

Error:

Could not find /.env on the classpath
blazing troutBOT
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<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

sly holly
brittle nebula
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.env is for node?

blazing troutBOT
# brittle nebula .env is for node?

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sly holly
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Inside of my .env file, I have DISCORD_TOKEN=<token>

brittle nebula
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that's for node though

sly holly
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Oh

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Oh wait a min... the tutorial I was watching is for Node... facepalm

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So there's no such thing in Java, then?

naive oyster
sly holly
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Title's misleading... It says "Java" 😂

sly holly
blazing troutBOT
# sly holly .env

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A command might then look like /foo 👍

brittle nebula
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you can use anything else for java like json, a config file or whatever

naive oyster
sly holly
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Environment file to store things like bot tokens

naive oyster
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yea

brittle nebula
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nodejs has a .env package that you can store env vars in. on startup, it'll load the env vars

naive oyster
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if you are using srping for example, you can use application.properties

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but here

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just create a file whereever you want

brittle nebula
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the closest we have is Properties

naive oyster
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and read it

sly holly
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Is .txt valid?

naive oyster
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I mean

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you can use anything

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but

brittle nebula
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you can create a .properties file and store all your stuff in there discord_token=1234

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and it'll have stuff like this

naive oyster
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not sure thats what you want

sly holly
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Yeah, that's cool

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Just something to store my bot token

brittle nebula
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    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Properties properties = new Properties();
        String propertiesFilePath = "path/to/your/config.properties";
        try {
            properties.load(new FileInputStream(propertiesFilePath));
            String value = properties.getProperty("discord_token");

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
sly holly
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Is Properties like part of the standard Java library?

brittle nebula
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yes

sly holly
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Awesome

naive oyster
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@sly holly

sly holly
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Oh?

brittle nebula
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i don't wanna explain that to him

sly holly
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Ok well Ig what I meant to ask was...

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Do I have to install it as a dependecy in my pom.xml file?

brittle nebula
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no

sly holly
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Alr cool

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One moment

brittle nebula
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but basically, you should have a resources folder that you're supposed to bang that stuff in

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but ala can explain if he wants

naive oyster
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unless you want to use another format like json

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when you generate a maven project

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it will always have a resource folder

sly holly
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So put .properties in resources?

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I like doing best practice

naive oyster
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so you can simply use

Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/config.properties");
naive oyster
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also, don't forget to gitignore it, so you don't commit your token by mistake

brittle nebula
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you can also use something like detect-secrets to ensure that you don't commit it

sly holly
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Ty for reminding me

naive oyster
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and instead, you can add a config.properties.template that you will commit so anyone cloning your project can just copy paste this file and complete it

sly holly
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Oh

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That's actually smart

naive oyster
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I stole this idea from tj bot

sly holly
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Lol

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Oh, I deleted my token on accident

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Let me regen one sec

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😂

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IOException e in Java is basically like saying store the error as e, right?

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Ah ye

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Ok good

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Awesome, this language is very intuitive

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YES! Thank you! Finally

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That should not have taken me that long...

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Man... Why do ppl market their videos with "Java" if it's JavaScript? facepalm

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Tysm guys

brittle nebula
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clickbait

naive oyster
sly holly
naive oyster
sly holly
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If I print e, I'll get the error?

naive oyster
sly holly
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Ooo

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Cool

naive oyster
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printing e directly only give minimal info

sly holly
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I see

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Java's so cool man

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Why do ppl hate on this language? :(

brittle nebula
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jealousy

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and everyone hates on things better than them

naive oyster
sly holly
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Arrow functions are interesting too, need to learn this

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Not even sure what's going on here really

real moss
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python folks are usually the ones to trash talk java because of it's verbosity(but mostly just stop at public static void main) 👀

sly holly
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Nah, but I always found it interesting how articulate you could be with Java

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I don't even get that in C++

real moss
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yea i like that about java, no comments on c++ since havent used it. Those first few lines at the top of a c++ program scares me.

sly holly
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C++, tbh, I don't really like the syntax in that language 🤣

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I just started with C++

sly holly
naive oyster
sly holly
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I never bothered learning lambda functions, ngl

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So I'm still lost

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Ah, Javacord API conveniently has lambdas under "Essential Knowledge"

naive oyster
sly holly
brittle nebula
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Maybe consider JDA instead of javacord

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I think most people are familiar with that

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Javacord might be better but you're likely to get more help from us lot specifically because our server bot uses that, so you can reference it

naive oyster
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@sly holly ↑

sly holly
sly holly
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Talking about everyone using JDA, not Javacord

blazing troutBOT
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