Read text from InputStream [duplicate]

Answer 1

Do specify the character encoding. Do not waste code, introduce bugs, and slow execution with a BufferedReader.

Here is an example. You could parameterize it with a buffer size, encoding, etc.

static String readString(InputStream is) throws IOException {
  char[] buf = new char[2048];
  Reader r = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
  StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
  while (true) {
    int n = r.read(buf);
    if (n < 0)
      break;
    s.append(buf, 0, n);
  }
  return s.toString();
}