Dum Question: Using the Data folder

[Charidan]

The development wiki suggests using a /data folder in the addon root to store new classes and/or raw data files. How do I then access those files from another?

I've got a helper class in /data/myclass.lua I'm trying to require into my /hooks/load.lua, but no matter what I put it tells me that this file is not found.

Is "require" the wrong keyword? Is there some sort of unix-like ../ equivalent I'm missing?

[Zizzo]

The development wiki suggests using a /data folder in the addon root to store new classes and/or raw data files. How do I then access those files from another?

I've got a helper class in /data/myclass.lua I'm trying to require into my /hooks/load.lua, but no matter what I put it tells me that this file is not found.

Is "require" the wrong keyword? Is there some sort of unix-like ../ equivalent I'm missing?

Files in an addon's data/ folder are visible to the engine by the name "/data-<short_name>/path/to/filename", where <short_name> is as defined in your init.lua. data/ is just for data, though (hence the name); for new classes, you probably want overload/. So for instance, you might have overload/mod/class/MyClass.lua, and you would access that from other code via e.g.:

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local MyClass = require 'mod.class.MyClass'

[Charidan]

Ah, I knew I needed to put the addon-name in there somewhere, but I didn't try hyphenating it.

That said, good call on using an overload instead. I wasn't sure you could overload a file that didn't exist, but I should have just tried it.