Read text file content to a String in Java


Utility method for reading text file's content into a String in Java

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
import java.nio.file.Files
import java.nio.file.Path
import java.nio.file.Paths


public static String text(Path path) {
    try {
        return new String(Files.readAllBytes(path), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("exception while reading text from file: " + path);
    }
}