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+// Copyright 2019 Oath Inc. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
+package com.yahoo.vespa.jdk8compat;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.OpenOption;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+/**
+ * Backport of new {@link java.nio.file.Files} methods added after JDK8
+ *
+ * @author bjorncs
+ */
+public interface Files {
+
+    static String readString(Path path) throws IOException {
+        byte[] bytes = java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes(path);
+        return new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+    }
+
+    static Path writeString(Path path, CharSequence string, OpenOption... options) throws IOException {
+        return java.nio.file.Files.write(path, string.toString().getBytes(), options);
+    }
+}