How to read a text-file resource into Java unit test? [duplicate]

Answer 1

With the use of Google Guava:

import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.io.Resources;

public String readResource(final String fileName, Charset charset) throws Exception {
        try {
            return Resources.toString(Resources.getResource(fileName), charset);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
        }
}

Example:

String fixture = this.readResource("filename.txt", Charsets.UTF_8)