Java URL Load readUrl(final URL url)

Description

Reads an url to string; should only be used for non-blocking connections (f.e.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
url	the url to be read

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	thrown on problems while reading.

Return

the results

Declaration

public static String readUrl(final URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.BufferedReader;

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

import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Reads an url to string; should only be used for non-blocking connections
     * (f.e. jar file contents and other things).
     * 
     * @param url the url to be read
     * @return the results
     * @throws IOException thrown on problems while reading.
     */
    public static String readUrl(final URL url) throws IOException {
        final InputStream stream = url.openStream();
        final BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
        String inputLine;
        final StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
            if (result.length() > 0) {
                result.append("\n");
            }
            result.append(inputLine);
        }
        in.close();
        return result.toString();
    }
}

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