Hi,

The best method is to use the org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils class which provides methods for converting stream into a String.

Add Maven dependency in your pom.xml:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.2</version>
  </dependency>

Now you can use the commons-io library in code. Here is the full code of Reading /Converting an inputStream to a String.

package net.roseindia;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.StringWriter;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class InputStreamToString {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Construct simple input stream 
        //Input stream can be from file or other source also
        //and it will work
        String str = "Learn Java at http://www.roseindia.net";
        //Convert String into InputStream
        InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes());

        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        try {
            IOUtils.copy(inputStream, writer, "UTF-8");
        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        String theString = writer.toString();

        System.out.println("String Value: "+theString);
    }

}

First create StringWriter:

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();

Then copy the stream into writer:

IOUtils.copy(inputStream, writer, "UTF-8");

Get String from writer:

String theString = writer.toString();

Thanks

Hi,

You can also Read/Convert an inputStream to a String with Scanner class. Here is the full code for the conversion:

package net.roseindia;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class InputStreamToStringWithScanner {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Construct simple input stream 
        //Input stream can be from file or other source also
        //and it will work
        String str = "Learn Java at http://www.roseindia.net";
        //Convert String into InputStream
        InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes());

        String inputStreamString = new Scanner(inputStream,"UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A").next();
        System.out.println(inputStreamString);

    }

}

Thanks

Hi,

In Pure Java you can use following classes:

• StringBuilder

• BufferedReader

classes for converting stream into String.

Here is full source code that you may try:

package net.roseindia;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Scanner;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class InputStreamToStringWithScanner {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Construct input stream
        String str = "Learn Java at http://www.roseindia.net";
        InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes());

        StringBuilder inputStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

        BufferedReader bufferedReader;
        try {
            bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8"));

            String line = bufferedReader.readLine();
            while (line != null) {
                inputStringBuilder.append(line);
                inputStringBuilder.append('\n');
                line = bufferedReader.readLine();
            }
            System.out.println(inputStringBuilder.toString());

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

}

Thanks