How do I convert string into InputStream?

Date: 2010-09-16. Category: Java I/O examples. Hits: 246K time(s).

Here you'll find how to convert string into InputStream object using ByteArrayInputStream class.

package org.kodejava.example.io;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class StringToStream {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "Converting String to InputStream Example";
        
        /*
         * Convert String to InputStream using ByteArrayInputStream 
         * class. This class constructor takes the string byte array 
         * which can be done by calling the getBytes() method.
         */
        try {
            InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(text.getBytes("UTF-8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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