/*

  *   StarOffice News Server

  *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors

  *

  *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

  *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

  *   (at your option) any later version.

  *

  *   This program 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 General Public License for more details.

  *

  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

  *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

  */

 package com.so.news.io;

 import java.io.BufferedReader;

 import java.io.File;

 import java.io.FileInputStream;

 import java.io.IOException;

 import java.io.InputStream;

 import java.io.InputStreamReader;

 import java.net.URL;

 import java.nio.charset.Charset;

 /**

  * Provides method for loading of resources.

  * @author Christian Lins

  */

 public class Resource

 {

   /**

    * Loads a file as array of byte. As the file is completely loaded into

    * memory this method should only be used with small files.

    * @param file

    * @return

    */

   public static byte[] getBytes(File file)

   {

     try

     {

       FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);

       byte[] buffer = new byte[(int)file.length()];

       in.read(buffer);

       return buffer;

     }

     catch(IOException ex)

     {

       System.err.println(ex.getLocalizedMessage());

       return null;

     }

   }

   /**

    * Loads a resource and returns it as URL reference.

    * The Resource's classloader is used to load the resource, not

    * the System's ClassLoader so it may be safe to use this method

    * in a sandboxed environment.

    * @return

    */

   public static URL getAsURL(String name)

   {

     return Resource.class.getClassLoader().getResource(name);

   }

   /**

    * Loads a resource and returns an InputStream to it.

    * @param name

    * @return

    */

   public static InputStream getAsStream(String name)

   {

     try

     {

       URL url = getAsURL(name);

       return url.openStream();

     }

     catch(IOException e)

     {

       e.printStackTrace();

       return null;

     }

   }

   /**

    * Loads a plain text resource.

    * @param withNewline If false all newlines are removed from the 

    * return String

    */

   public static String getAsString(String name, boolean withNewline)

   {

     try

     {

       BufferedReader in  = new BufferedReader(

           new InputStreamReader(getAsStream(name), Charset.forName("UTF-8")));

       StringBuffer   buf = new StringBuffer();

       for(;;)

       {

         String line = in.readLine();

         if(line == null)

           break;

         buf.append(line);

         if(withNewline)

           buf.append('\n');

       }

       return buf.toString();

     }

     catch(Exception e)

     {

       e.printStackTrace();

       return null;

     }

   }

 }