Java Resource Load getResource(Class c, String name)

Description

Reads a string resource from the resource path (=classpath) of the given class.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
c	The that defines where we look for the String.
name	The name of the resource containing the string.

Return

The String representation of the resource, newlines represented by '\n'.

Declaration

public static String getResource(Class c, String name) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*ww  w  .  ja  v  a 2 s.c  o  m*/
 * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
 * version 2.1 of the License.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 */

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import java.io.StringWriter;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Reads a string resource from the resource path (=classpath) of the given class.
     *
     * @param c    The that defines where we look for the String.
     * @param name The name of the resource containing the string.
     * @return The String representation of the resource, newlines represented by '\n'.
     */
    public static String getResource(Class c, String name) {
        InputStream is = c.getResourceAsStream(name);
        return getResource(is);
    }

    public static String getResource(InputStream in) {
        StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
        try (Scanner scanner = new Scanner(in, "UTF-8")) {
            while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
                String line = scanner.nextLine();
                text.append(line);
                if (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
                    text.append("\n");
                }
            }
        }

        return text.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Creates a string representation for a stack trace for an exception.
     * For logging, failure analysis, etc.
     *
     * @param t The throwable for which to create the string.
     * @return The stack trace as string.
     */
    public static String toString(Throwable t) {
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
        t.printStackTrace(pw);
        return sw.toString();
    }
}

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