/**
 * GmailAssistant 1.1 (2008-03-16)
 * Copyright 2008 Zach Scrivena
 * zachscrivena@gmail.com
 * http://gmailassistant.sourceforge.net/
 *
 * Notifier for multiple Gmail accounts.
 *
 * TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * 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 gmailassistant;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;


/**
 * Perform miscellaneous resource manipulation tasks.
 */
class ResourceManipulator
{
    /**
    * Return the contents of the specified resource as a string.
    *
    * @param name
    *      name of the resource
    * @return
    *      contents of the resource as a string
    * @throws java.io.IOException
    *      if an I/O error occurs while reading the resource
    */
    static String resourceAsString(
            final String name)
            throws IOException
    {
        final BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                ResourceManipulator.class.getResourceAsStream(name)));

        final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        while (true)
        {
            final String s = br.readLine();

            if (s == null)
            {
                break;
            }
            else
            {
                if (sb.length() > 0)
                {
                    sb.append('\n');
                }

                sb.append(s);
            }
        }

        br.close();

        return sb.toString();
    }
}