From dda85bea68207241dbb3a849c84e706350820155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: felmer <felmer>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:00:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add loadText()
SVN: 90
---
.../cisd/common/utilities/FileUtilities.java | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
diff --git a/common/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/common/utilities/FileUtilities.java b/common/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/common/utilities/FileUtilities.java
index 327248f58b0..245328e8f77 100644
--- a/common/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/common/utilities/FileUtilities.java
+++ b/common/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/common/utilities/FileUtilities.java
@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@
package ch.systemsx.cisd.common.utilities;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileFilter;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
@@ -38,6 +42,43 @@ import ch.systemsx.cisd.common.logging.LogFactory;
public class FileUtilities
{
private static final Logger machineLog = LogFactory.getLogger(LogCategory.MACHINE, FileUtilities.class);
+
+ /**
+ * Loads the specified text file.
+ *
+ * @return text from <code>text</code>. All newline characters are '\n'.
+ */
+ public static String loadText(File file)
+ {
+ FileReader fileReader = null;
+ try
+ {
+ fileReader = new FileReader(file);
+ BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
+ StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+ String line;
+ while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null)
+ {
+ builder.append(line).append('\n');
+ }
+ return new String(builder);
+ } catch (IOException ex)
+ {
+ throw new EnvironmentFailureException("Error when loading file " + file, ex);
+ } finally
+ {
+ if (fileReader != null)
+ {
+ try
+ {
+ fileReader.close();
+ } catch (IOException ex)
+ {
+ throw new EnvironmentFailureException("Couldn't close file " + file, ex);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
/**
* Checks whether a <var>directory</var> of some <var>kind</var> is fully accessible to the program.
--
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