Java Utililty Methods InputStream to String

List of utility methods to do InputStream to String

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Method

String[]asArrayString(InputStream response)
as Array String 
List<String> lines = new ArrayList<>();
try (BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response))) {
    String line = null;
    while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
        lines.add(line);
    return lines.toArray(new String[lines.size()]);
} catch (IOException e) {
...
StringgetInputStreamAsString(final InputStream is, final String encoding)
get Input Stream As String 
final Scanner s = new Scanner(is, encoding).useDelimiter("\\A");
return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
StringgetInputStreamAsString(InputStream inStream)
get Input Stream As String 
StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(inStream, "Unicode");
char buffer[] = new char[4096];
int bytes_read;
while ((bytes_read = in.read(buffer)) != -1)
    text.append(new String(buffer, 0, bytes_read));
return text.toString();
StringgetInputStreamAsString(InputStream stream)
get Input Stream As String 
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader br = null;
try {
    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
    char[] cbuf = new char[1024];
    int len;
    while ((len = br.read(cbuf)) > 0) {
        sb.append(cbuf, 0, len);
...
StringgetInputStreamContent(InputStream i, String encoding)
get Input Stream Content 
if (i != null) {
    BufferedReader pBr;
    try {
        pBr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(i, encoding));
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    StringBuffer pSb = new StringBuffer();
    int a = -1;
    try {
        while ((a = pBr.read()) != -1) {
            pSb.append((char) a);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    return pSb.toString();
return null;
StringgetInputStreamContent(InputStream inputStream)
Get InputStream to String 
BufferedReader bufferReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = bufferReader.readLine()) != null) {
    result.append(line).append(NL);
bufferReader.close();
return result.toString();
...
StringgetInputStreamContents(InputStream inputStream)
get Input Stream Contents 
int read;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while ((read = inputStream.read()) != -1) {
    sb.append((char) read);
inputStream.close();
return sb.toString();
StringgetInputStreamContents(InputStream inputStream)
Utility method to load the contents of an InputStream as a String 
int chunksize = 512;
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8")); 
StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();
char[] buff = new char[chunksize];
int len = reader.read(buff);
while (len > 0) {
    output.append(buff, 0, len);
    len = reader.read(buff);
...
StringgetStreamAsString(final InputStream stream)
Gets a stream as String. 
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"));
String line = null;
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
    result.append(line);
    result.append("\n");
stream.close();
...
StringgetStreamAsString(InputStream input, String charset)
get Stream As String 
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader bf = null;
try {
    bf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input, charset));
    String str;
    while ((str = bf.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(str);
    return sb.toString();
} finally {
    if (bf != null) {
        bf.close();
        bf = null;