This method is used to retrieve the rules file in a string format. For doing this action, you must connect to the Oracle Metadata Repository (MDS) or a file system, and return the rules file in a string format.

The code sample below shows how to get the file from a local file system:

private static final String RULES_FILE1 =
"file:///C:/scratch/<username>/system/mywork/linkedD/AutoAppProj/oracle/rules/credit/CreditRatingRules.rules";

   public String getDocument() {
        URL url = null;
        try {
            url = new URL(RULES_FILE1);
            return readFile(url);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        }
        return "";
    }

    private String readFile(URL dictURL) {
        InputStream is;
        try {
            is = dictURL.openStream();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            return "";
        }
        BufferedReader reader;
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            return "";
        }
        String line = null;
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        String ls = System.getProperty("line.separator");
        try {
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                stringBuilder.append(line);
                stringBuilder.append(ls);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            return "";
        } finally {
            try {
                reader.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println(e);
            }
        }
        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }