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+/**
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * org.onap.aai
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright © 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright © 2017-2018 Amdocs
+ * ================================================================================
+ * 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.crud.util;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+
+/**
+ * Helper methods for locating and reading test data files.
+ *
+ */
+public class TestUtil {
+
+    public static Path getPath(String resourceFilename) throws URISyntaxException {
+        URL resource = ClassLoader.getSystemResource(resourceFilename);
+        if (resource != null) {
+            return Paths.get(resource.toURI());
+        }
+
+        // If the resource is not found relative to the classpath, try to get it from the file system directly.
+        File file = new File(resourceFilename);
+        if (!file.exists()) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Resource does not exist: " + resourceFilename);
+        }
+        return file.toPath();
+    }
+
+    public static String getContentUtf8(Path filePath) throws IOException {
+        return new String(Files.readAllBytes(filePath));
+    }
+
+    public static String getFileAsString(String resourceFilename) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        return getContentUtf8(getPath(resourceFilename));
+    }
+}