public static String loadTextFile(String fileName) { return loadTextFile(fileName, null); } public static String loadTextFile(String fileName, String defaultContents) { try { if (!new File(fileName).exists()) return defaultContents; FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(fileName); InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(fileInputStream, "UTF-8"); return loadTextFile(inputStreamReader); } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } public static String loadTextFile(File fileName) { return loadTextFile(fileName, null); } public static String loadTextFile(File f, String defaultContents) { ret f == null ? defaultContents : loadTextFile(f.getPath(), defaultContents); } public static String loadTextFile(Reader reader) throws IOException { StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); try { char[] buffer = new char[1024]; int n; while (-1 != (n = reader.read(buffer))) builder.append(buffer, 0, n); } finally { reader.close(); } return builder.toString(); }