diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 mobile/android/base/util/RawResource.java
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+++ b/mobile/android/base/util/RawResource.java	Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100
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+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+package org.mozilla.gecko.util;
+
+import android.content.Context;
+import android.content.res.Resources;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+
+/**
+ * {@code RawResource} provides API to load raw resources in different
+ * forms. For now, we only load them as strings. We're using raw resources
+ * as localizable 'assets' as opposed to a string that can be directly
+ * translatable e.g. JSON file vs string.
+ *
+ * This is just a utility class to avoid code duplication for the different
+ * cases where need to read such assets.
+ */
+public final class RawResource {
+    public static String getAsString(Context context, int id) throws IOException {
+        InputStreamReader reader = null;
+
+        try {
+            final Resources res = context.getResources();
+            final InputStream is = res.openRawResource(id);
+            if (is == null) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            reader = new InputStreamReader(is);
+
+            final char[] buffer = new char[1024];
+            final StringWriter s = new StringWriter();
+
+            int n;
+            while ((n = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1) {
+                s.write(buffer, 0, n);
+            }
+
+            return s.toString();
+        } finally {
+            if (reader != null) {
+                reader.close();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
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