How do I get the content of an InputStream as a String?

By Wayan Saryada in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

We can use the code below to convert the content of an InputStream into a String. At first we use FileInputStream create to a connection to a file that going to be read. IOUtils.toString(InputStream input, String encoding) method gets the content of the InputStream and returns a string representation of it. In the end we need to close the InputStream in a finally block.

package org.kodejava.example.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class InputStreamToString {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // Create an input stream for reading data.txt file content.
        try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(new File("data.txt"))) {
            // Get the content of an input stream as a string using UTF-8
            // as the character encoding.
            String contents = IOUtils.toString(is, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
            System.out.println(contents);
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<!-- http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/2.6/commons-io-2.6.jar -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
</dependency>
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