Read file contents from VirtualFile - intellij plugin development

Question

How can I read file contents from a virtual file. I am currently using this way

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(virtualFile.getInputStream()));
            String currentLine;
            StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            while ((currentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                stringBuilder.append(currentLine);
                stringBuilder.append("\n");
            }
        } catch (IOException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
            return 0;
        }

However am getting some garbled string appended when I print the stringbuilder.

Answer 1

Some common ways of reading VirtualFile contents are:

• file.contentsToByteArray()
• LoadTextUtil.loadText(file)
• FileDocumentManager.getInstance().getDocument(file).get*CharSequence()