Java tutorial
package llc.rockford.webcast; /** * Copyright 2012 Steven McAdams * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.ObjectOutputStream; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; public class StringUtils { public static String encodeBase64BinaryFile(InputStream is) { String base64EncodedFile = ""; try { byte[] bytesFromFile = IOUtils.toByteArray(is); ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ObjectOutputStream stream = new ObjectOutputStream(baos); stream.write(bytesFromFile); stream.flush(); stream.close(); base64EncodedFile = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(baos.toByteArray())); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } return base64EncodedFile; } 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 ""; } } public static byte[] getBytes(InputStream is) throws IOException { int len; int size = 1024; byte[] buf; if (is instanceof ByteArrayInputStream) { size = is.available(); buf = new byte[size]; len = is.read(buf, 0, size); } else { ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); buf = new byte[size]; while ((len = is.read(buf, 0, size)) != -1) bos.write(buf, 0, len); buf = bos.toByteArray(); } return buf; } }