package com.baeldung.fileToBase64StringConversion; import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Base64; import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils; import org.junit.Test; public class FileToBase64StringConversionUnitTest { private String inputFilePath = "test_image.jpg"; private String outputFilePath = "test_image_copy.jpg"; @Test public void fileToBase64StringConversion() throws IOException { //load file from /src/test/resources ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader(); File inputFile = new File(classLoader .getResource(inputFilePath) .getFile()); byte[] fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(inputFile); String encodedString = Base64 .getEncoder() .encodeToString(fileContent); //create output file File outputFile = new File(inputFile .getParentFile() .getAbsolutePath() + File.pathSeparator + outputFilePath); // decode the string and write to file byte[] decodedBytes = Base64 .getDecoder() .decode(encodedString); FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(outputFile, decodedBytes); assertTrue(FileUtils.contentEquals(inputFile, outputFile)); } }