Here you can find the source of getReaderAsString(Reader reader)
public static String getReaderAsString(Reader reader) throws IOException
//package com.java2s; /**//from w w w . j a v a 2 s .c o m * Copyright 2000-2009 DFKI GmbH. * All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. * * This file is part of MARY TTS. * * MARY TTS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * */ import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringWriter; public class Main { public static String getReaderAsString(Reader reader) throws IOException { StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(reader); char[] buf = new char[8192]; int n; while ((n = in.read(buf)) > 0) { sw.write(buf, 0, n); } return sw.toString(); } }