spring-boot-rest/java-strings-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/fileToBase64StringConversion/FileToBase64StringConversionUnitTest.java

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));
    }
}