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package org.assertj.swing.util;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

/**
 * Reads an image from a file.
 * 
 * @author Yvonne Wang
 */
public final class ImageReader {

  /**
   * Decodes the image in the file at the specified path.
   * 
   * @param path the path of the image to read.
   * @return the read image.
   * @throws NullPointerException if the given path is {@code null}.
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the given path does not belong to a file.
   * @throws IOException if an error occurs during reading.
   */
  public static BufferedImage readImageFrom(String path) throws IOException {
    if (path == null)
      throw new NullPointerException("The path of the image to read should not be null");
    File file = new File(path);
    if (!file.isFile()) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("The path '%s' does not belong to a file", path));
    }
    return ImageIO.read(file);
  }

  private ImageReader() {
  }
}