Java URL Load readStringFromURL(URL url)

Description

read String From URL

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String readStringFromURL(URL url) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from www. j  av a 2 s  .c  o  m*/
 * SwingTech Software - http://cooksarm.sourceforge.net/
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2011 Joe Rice
 * All rights reserved.
 * 
 * SwingTech Cooks Arm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
 * by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License,
 * or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * SwingTech Cooks Arm 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
 * General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with SwingTech Cooks Arm; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 
 * 
 */

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;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    public static String readStringFromURL(URL url) {
        InputStream is = null;

        try {
            is = url.openStream();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            return "";
        }

        return readStringFromInputStream(is);
    }

    public static String readStringFromInputStream(InputStream input) {
        Writer writer = null;

        try {
            if (input != null) {
                try {
                    writer = new StringWriter();

                    char[] buffer = new char[1024];
                    Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input, "UTF-8"));
                    int n;
                    while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                        writer.write(buffer, 0, n);
                    }
                } finally {
                    input.close();
                }
            }
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return writer.toString();
    }
}

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