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+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * guard
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 Ericsson. All rights reserved.
+ * Modifications Copyright (C) 2019 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.policy.guard;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import org.drools.core.util.IoUtils;
+
+/**
+ * The Class TextFileUtils is class that provides useful functions for handling text files.
+ * Functions to read and wrtie text files to strings and strings are provided.
+ *
+ * @author Liam Fallon (liam.fallon@ericsson.com)
+ */
+public class SupportTextFileUtils {
+
+    private SupportTextFileUtils() {
+        // do nothing
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Method to return the contents of a text file as a string.
+     *
+     * @param textFilePath The path to the file as a string
+     * @return A string containing the contents of the file
+     * @throws IOException on errors reading text from the file
+     */
+    public static String getTextFileAsString(final String textFilePath) {
+        return IoUtils.readFileAsString(new File(textFilePath));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Method to write contents of a string to a text file.
+     *
+     * @param outString The string to write
+     * @param textFile The file to write the string to
+     * @throws IOException on errors reading text from the file
+     */
+    public static void putStringAsFile(final String outString, final File textFile) throws IOException {
+        try (final FileOutputStream textFileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(textFile)) {
+            textFileOutputStream.write(outString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        }
+    }
+}