Utils to read resource text file to String (Java)

Yes, Guava provides this in the Resources class. For example:

URL url = Resources.getResource("foo.txt");
String text = Resources.toString(url, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

You can use the old Stupid Scanner trick oneliner to do that without any additional dependency like guava:

String text = new Scanner(AppropriateClass.class.getResourceAsStream("foo.txt"), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A").next();

Guys, don't use 3rd party stuff unless you really need that. There is a lot of functionality in the JDK already.

For java 7:

new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(getClass().getResource("foo.txt").toURI())));

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