Utils to read resource text file to String (Java) [closed]

Answer 1

Use Apache commons's FileUtils. It has a method readFileToString

Answer 2

Here's a solution using Java 11's Files.readString:

public class Utils {
    public static String readResource(String name) throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
        var uri = Utils.class.getResource("/" + name).toURI();
        var path = Paths.get(uri);
        return Files.readString(path);
    }
}

Answer 3

Guava has a "toString" method for reading a file into a String:

import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.io.Files;

String content = Files.toString(new File("/home/x1/text.log"), Charsets.UTF_8);

This method does not require the file to be in the classpath (as in Jon Skeet previous answer).

Answer 4

The following cods work for me:

compile group: 'commons-io', name: 'commons-io', version: '2.6'

@Value("classpath:mockResponse.json")
private Resource mockResponse;

String mockContent = FileUtils.readFileToString(mockResponse.getFile(), "UTF-8");

Answer 5

I like Apache commons utils for this type of stuff and use this exact use-case (reading files from classpath) extensively when testing, especially for reading JSON files from /src/test/resources as part of unit / integration testing. e.g.

public class FileUtils {

    public static String getResource(String classpathLocation) {
        try {
            String message = IOUtils.toString(FileUtils.class.getResourceAsStream(classpathLocation),
                    Charset.defaultCharset());
            return message;
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Could not read file [ " + classpathLocation + " ] from classpath", e);
        }
    }

}

For testing purposes, it can be nice to catch the IOException and throw a RuntimeException - your test class could look like e.g.

    @Test
    public void shouldDoSomething () {
        String json = FileUtils.getResource("/json/input.json");

        // Use json as part of test ...
    }

Answer 6

I like akosicki's answer with the Stupid Scanner Trick. It's the simplest I see without external dependencies that works in Java 8 (and in fact all the way back to Java 5). Here's an even simpler answer if you can use Java 9 or higher (since InputStream.readAllBytes() was added at Java 9):

String text = new String(AppropriateClass.class.getResourceAsStream("foo.txt").readAllBytes());