protected function getRecoveryFileContent(): array
    {
        $content = file_get_contents($this->consumerRecoveryFile);
        if (!empty($content)) {
            return json_decode($content, TRUE);
        } elseif ($content === FALSE) {
            throw new ConsumerRecoveryException('Error reading Consumer recovery data at ' . $this->consumerRecoveryFile);
        }

        return [];
    }