Java Text File Read by Charset getFileContent(IFile file, String charset)

Description

Returns the file content as UTF8 string.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
file	a parameter
charset	a parameter

Declaration

public static String getFileContent(IFile file, String charset) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*  w  ww .jav a  2 s .  c  o m*/
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2014  Pascal Essiembre
 *
 * 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.
 */

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the file content as UTF8 string.
     * 
     * @param file
     * @param charset 
     * @return
     */
    public static String getFileContent(IFile file, String charset) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        InputStream in = null;
        try {
            in = file.getContents(true);
            byte[] buf = new byte[8000];
            for (int count; (count = in.read(buf)) != -1;)
                outputStream.write(buf, 0, count);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (in != null) {
                try {
                    in.close();
                } catch (IOException ignore) {
                }
            }
        }
        try {
            return outputStream.toString(charset);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return outputStream.toString();
        }
    }
}

Related

1. createBOMStrippedReader(InputStream stream, String defaultCharset)
2. createBufferedReaderWithGuessedCharset(File file)
3. createInputStreamReader(File file, String charsetName)
4. createReader(Path p, Charset cs)
5. getDecoder(Charset charset, ThreadLocal> localDecoder)
6. getInputStreamReader(InputStream stream, Charset charset)
7. getReader(InputStream in, String charsetName)
8. getReader(InputStream is, String charset)
9. getReader(String fileName, Charset cs)