Read text from InputStream [duplicate]

Answer 1

Reading/writing from streams is remarkably painful in Java.

public static String getStreamContents(InputStream stream) throws IOException {

    StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder()

    Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"))
    String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");

    try {
        String line
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            content.append(line + lineSeparator)
        }
        return content.toString()

    } finally {
        reader.close()
    }

}