Added support for applying Heat Templates

Second patch expanded support to both files and dict() objects.
Third patch exposes new accessor for status and outputs.

JIRA: SNAPS-86

Change-Id: Ie7e8d883b4cc1a08dbe851fc9cbf663396334909
Signed-off-by: spisarski <s.pisarski@cablelabs.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/snaps/file_utils.py b/snaps/file_utils.py
index 819c707..f7c9af4 100644
--- a/snaps/file_utils.py
+++ b/snaps/file_utils.py
@@ -123,3 +123,16 @@ def read_os_env_file(os_env_filename):
                     # Remove leading and trailing ' & " characters from value
                     out[tokens[0]] = tokens[1].lstrip('\'').lstrip('\"').rstrip('\'').rstrip('\"')
         return out
+
+
+def read_file(filename):
+    """
+    Returns the contents of a file as a string
+    :param filename: the name of the file
+    :return:
+    """
+    out = str()
+    for line in open(filename):
+        out += line
+
+    return out