What is the value of (-> "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS" (System/getenv)) out of curiosity?

And a wild guess: could there be directories in the full path that you do not have read/search permissions for?

@U0CMVHBL2 "~/Documents/clojure/writing-workflow/tokens/StoredCredential" and re: permissions, that seems unlikely to me, this is my personal machine and I'm the root user. But then again I wouldn't bet money on it.

the jvm doesn't know about ~

you can make the two file objects and compare getCanonicalPath on them

~ is a shell thing, not a feature of the underlying filesystem, the shell often expands it away, and some non-shell code also supports it, but the jvm does not

Good to know about ~ here. I used .getCanonicalPath on the file object I created from the envvar and I got back the absolute path of the file appended to the path of my working directory. Is that to be expected?

because it doesn't start with '/' the jvm assumes it is a relative path

calling getCanonicalPath makes it absolute, by prepending the current working directory

user=> (.getCanonicalPath (java.io.File. "~/foo"))
"/home/kevin/~/foo"
user=>

The file object represents a file named "foo" in a directory named "~" under "/home/kevin"

Seems best to change the value of the env var to not use ~ if you want fewer headaches.

Either that, or write special code for interpreting ~ in the value of any env vars that you want to support it, yourself, explicitly.

Yeah, I did already. I put it in my .bashrc as an absolute path and it works now. Thanks @U0NCTKEV8 @U0CMVHBL2 🙏:skin-tone-2: