[client] support for loading text files through the ResouceLoader

this will be needed to read the vmx-template from resources/

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/dozentenmodul/src/main/java/util/ResourceLoader.java b/dozentenmodul/src/main/java/util/ResourceLoader.java
index 49c54d9d..7c3c9c62 100644
--- a/dozentenmodul/src/main/java/util/ResourceLoader.java
+++ b/dozentenmodul/src/main/java/util/ResourceLoader.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package util;
 
-import gui.intro.Login_GUI;
-
 import java.awt.Color;
 import java.awt.Font;
 import java.awt.Graphics2D;
@@ -12,6 +10,7 @@ import java.net.URL;
 
 import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 
 /**
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ public class ResourceLoader {
 	 * Logger for this class
 	 */
 	private final static Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ResourceLoader.class);
-	
+
 	/**
 	 * Load the given resource as an ImageIcon.
 	 * This is guaranteed to never throw an Exception and always return
@@ -65,8 +64,7 @@ public class ResourceLoader {
 	 * @param path Resource path to load
 	 * @return ImageIcon instance
 	 */
-	public static ImageIcon getIcon(String path)
-	{
+	public static ImageIcon getIcon(String path) {
 		return getIcon(path, path);
 	}
 
@@ -101,4 +99,23 @@ public class ResourceLoader {
 		return new ImageIcon(image, "ERROR");
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Tries to load the given resource as File
+	 * @param path Resource path to load
+	 * @return the file of the loaded resource
+	 */
+	public static String getTextFile(String path) {
+		String fileContent = null;
+		try {
+			fileContent = IOUtils.toString(ResourceLoader.class.getResourceAsStream(path));
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			LOGGER.error("IO error while trying to load resource '" + path + "'. See trace: ", e);
+		}
+
+		if (fileContent != null) {
+			return fileContent;
+		} else {
+			return "Resource '" + path + "' not found.";
+		}
+	}
 }