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package org.apache.maven.archiva.converter.artifact;

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import org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * AsciiFileUtil - conveinence utility for reading / writing ascii files.
 * 
 * @author Joakim Erdfelt
 * @version $Id: AsciiFileUtil.java 562485 2007-08-03 14:44:15Z joakime $
 * @todo switch to commons-lang and use their high-performance versions of these utility methods.
 */
public class AsciiFileUtil
{
    /**
     * Read a file into a {@link String} and return it.
     * 
     * @param file the file to read
     * @return the {@link String} contents of the file.
     * @throws IOException if there was a problem performing this operation.
     */
    public static String readFile( File file )
        throws IOException
    {
        FileInputStream in = null;
        try
        {
            in = new FileInputStream( file );
            return IOUtil.toString( in );
        }
        finally
        {
            IOUtil.close( in );
        }
    }

    /**
     * Write the contents of a {@link String} to a file.
     *  
     * @param file the file to write to
     * @param content the {@link String} contents to write.
     * @throws IOException if there was a problem performing this operation.
     */
    public static void writeFile( File file, String content )
        throws IOException
    {
        FileOutputStream out = null;
        try
        {
            out = new FileOutputStream( file );
            IOUtil.copy( content, out );
        }
        finally
        {
            IOUtil.close( out );
        }
    }
}