convert InputStream To String - Android File Input Output

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convert InputStream To String

Demo Code

/**/*  w  w  w .j  a va 2  s.co  m*/
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Alvin S.J. Ng
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 
 * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
 * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including 
 * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, 
 * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
 * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject 
 * to the following conditions:
 * 
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 
 * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 * 
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT 
 * WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, 
 * INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF 
 * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
 * PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT 
 * SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE 
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 * THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 * 
 * @author       Alvin S.J. Ng <alvinsj.ng@gmail.com>
 * @copyright   2012   Alvin S.J. Ng
 * 
 */
//package com.java2s;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

public class Main {
    public static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is)
            throws IOException {
        /*
         * To convert the InputStream to String we use the Reader.read(char[]
         * buffer) method. We iterate until the Reader return -1 which means
         * there's no more data to read. We use the StringWriter class to
         * produce the string.
         */
        if (is != null) {
            Writer writer = new StringWriter();

            char[] buffer = new char[1024];
            try {
                Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                        is, "UTF-8"));
                int n;
                while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                    writer.write(buffer, 0, n);
                }
            } finally {
                is.close();
            }
            return writer.toString();
        } else {
            return "";
        }
    }
}

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