How to read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?

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How to read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?

If a java.io.InputStream object is present , how should you process that object and produce a String?

Suppose an InputStream that contains text data, and I want to convert it to a String, so for example
write that to a log file.

What is the easiest way to take the InputStream and convert it to a String?



public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {

    // ???

}

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4 years ago by ninja01

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**sandhya6gczb** · Answer 1 · 2021-04-30T13:53:03

To copy input stream to string use Apache commons IOUtils.

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
IOUtils.copy(inputStream, writer, encoding);
String theString = writer.toString();

**espadacoder11** · Answer 2 · 2021-05-03T14:01:34

If you are using Google-Collections/Guava you could do the following:

InputStream stream = ...

String content = CharStreams.toString(new InputStreamReader(stream, Charsets.UTF_8));

Closeables.closeQuietly(stream);

Note that the second parameter (i.e. Charsets.UTF_8) for the InputStreamReader isn't necessary, but it is generally a good idea to specify the encoding if you know it (which you should!)

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How to read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?

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