Read/convert an InputStream to a String

If you have java.io.InputStream object, how should you process that object and produce a String?
Suppose I have an InputStream that contains text data, and I want to convert this to a String (for example, so I can write the contents of the stream to a log file).
What is the easiest way to take the InputStream and convert it to a String?
public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) { 
    // ???
}


Answer:

A nice way to do this is using Apache commons IOUtils to copy the InputStream into a StringWriter... something like
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
IOUtils.copy(inputStream, writer, encoding);
String theString = writer.toString();
or even
// NB: does not close inputStream, you can use IOUtils.closeQuietly for that
String theString = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, encoding);
Alternatively, you could use ByteArrayOutputStream if you don't want to mix your Streams and Writers


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309424/read-convert-an-inputstream-to-a-string

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