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/*
 * Copyright 2008-2012 Microarray Informatics Team, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 *
 *
 * For further details of the Gene Expression Atlas project, including source code,
 * downloads and documentation, please see:
 *
 * http://gxa.github.com/gxa
 */

package uk.ac.ebi.atlas.utils;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;

public class Files {

    public static String readTextFileFromClasspath(Class aClass, String fileName) throws IllegalStateException {

        try {

            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            IOUtils.copy(aClass.getResourceAsStream(fileName), writer, "UTF-8");
            return writer.toString();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
        }

    }

}