Bael 2434 (#6635)

* BAEL-2434

* BAEL-2434

* Minor alterations to reflect changes in the article

* Fixing Spel expression and removing extra code that is not referenced anymore in the article

* Moved the files from spring-core to spring-static-resources. Renamed ResourceUtil to ResourceReader.

* Changes due to change of article outline.

* Changes due to change of article outline.

* Removing Converter from article

spring-static-resources/src/test/java/com/baeldung/loadresourceasstring/LoadResourceAsStringIntegrationTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.loadresourceasstring;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
+import org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter;
+import org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader;
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader;
+import org.springframework.util.FileCopyUtils;
+
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class, classes = LoadResourceConfig.class)
+public class LoadResourceAsStringIntegrationTest {
+
+    private static final String EXPECTED_RESOURCE_VALUE = "This is a resource text file. This file will be loaded as a " + "resource and use its contents as a string.";
+
+    @Value("#{T(com.baeldung.loadresourceasstring.ResourceReader).readFileToString('classpath:resource.txt')}")
+    private String resourceStringUsingSpel;
+
+    @Autowired
+    @Qualifier("resourceString")
+    private String resourceString;
+
+    @Autowired
+    private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUsingResourceLoadAndFileCopyUtils_whenConvertingAResourceToAString_thenCorrect() {
+        Resource resource = resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:resource.txt");
+        assertEquals(EXPECTED_RESOURCE_VALUE, ResourceReader.asString(resource));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUsingResourceStringBean_whenConvertingAResourceToAString_thenCorrect() {
+        assertEquals(EXPECTED_RESOURCE_VALUE, resourceString);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUsingSpel_whenConvertingAResourceToAString_thenCorrect() {
+        assertEquals(EXPECTED_RESOURCE_VALUE, resourceStringUsingSpel);
+    }
+
+
+
+
+}