How do I convert InputStream to String?

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This example will show you how to convert an InputStream to String. In the code snippet below we read a data.txt file, could be from common folder or from inside a jar file.

 
package org.kodejava.example.io;
 
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.Properties;
 
public class StreamToString {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        StreamToString sts = new StreamToString();
        
        /*
         * Get input stream of our data file. This file can be in the root of
         * you application folder or inside a jar file if the program is packed
         * as a jar.
         */
        InputStream is = sts.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/data.txt");
 
        /*
         * Call the method to convert the stream to string
         */
        System.out.println(sts.convertStreamToString(is));
    }
    
    public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
        /*
         * To conver the InputStream to String we use the BufferedReader.readLine()
         * method. We iterate until the BufferedReader return null which means
         * there's no more data to read. Each line will appended to a StringBuilder
         * and returned as String.
         */
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 
        String line = null;
        try {
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line + "\n");
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                is.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
 
        return sb.toString();
    }
}
 
 
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