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

Answer 1

Here is my approach worked fine

public String getFileContent(String fileName) {
    String filePath = "myFolder/" + fileName+ ".json";
    try(InputStream stream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filePath)) {
        return IOUtils.toString(stream, "UTF-8");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // Please print your Exception
    }
}

Answer 2

I made NO-dependency static method like this:

import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class ResourceReader {
    public  static String asString(String resourceFIleName) {
        try  {
            return new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(new CheatClassLoaderDummyClass().getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(resourceFIleName).toURI())));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}
class CheatClassLoaderDummyClass{//cheat class loader - for sql file loading
}

Answer 3

At least as of Apache commons-io 2.5, the IOUtils.toString() method supports an URI argument and returns contents of files located inside jars on the classpath:

IOUtils.toString(SomeClass.class.getResource(...).toURI(), ...)

Answer 4

I often had this problem myself. To avoid dependencies on small projects, I often write a small utility function when I don't need commons io or such. Here is the code to load the content of the file in a string buffer :

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getClass().getResourceAsStream("path/to/textfile.txt"), "UTF-8"));
for (int c = br.read(); c != -1; c = br.read()) sb.append((char)c);

System.out.println(sb.toString());   

Specifying the encoding is important in that case, because you might have edited your file in UTF-8, and then put it in a jar, and the computer that opens the file may have CP-1251 as its native file encoding (for example); so in this case you never know the target encoding, therefore the explicit encoding information is crucial. Also the loop to read the file char by char seems inefficient, but it is used on a BufferedReader, and so actually quite fast.

Answer 5

apache-commons-io has a utility name FileUtils:

URL url = Resources.getResource("myFile.txt");
File myFile = new File(url.toURI());

String content = FileUtils.readFileToString(myFile, "UTF-8");  // or any other encoding

Answer 6

Guava also has Files.readLines() if you want a return value as List<String> line-by-line:

List<String> lines = Files.readLines(new File("/file/path/input.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8);

Please refer to here to compare 3 ways (BufferedReader vs. Guava's Files vs. Guava's Resources) to get String from a text file.