Android - Store inputstream in file

Question

I am retrieveing an XML feed from a url and then parsing it. What I need to do is also store that internally to the phone so that when there is no internet connection it can

Answer 1

Simple Function

Try this simple function to neatly wrap it up in:

// Copy an InputStream to a File.
//
private void copyInputStreamToFile(InputStream in, File file) {
    OutputStream out = null;

    try {
        out = new FileOutputStream(file);
        byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        int len;
        while((len=in.read(buf))>0){
            out.write(buf,0,len);
        }
    } 
    catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } 
    finally {
        // Ensure that the InputStreams are closed even if there's an exception.
        try {
            if ( out != null ) {
                out.close();
            }

            // If you want to close the "in" InputStream yourself then remove this
            // from here but ensure that you close it yourself eventually.
            in.close();  
        }
        catch ( IOException e ) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Thanks to Jordan LaPrise and his answer.

Answer 2

There's the way of IOUtils:

copy(InputStream input, OutputStream output)

The code of it is similar to this :

public static long copyStream(InputStream input, OutputStream output) throws IOException {
    long count = 0L;
    byte[] buffer = new byte[4096]; 
    for (int n; -1 != (n = input.read(buffer)); count += (long) n)
        output.write(buffer, 0, n);
    return count;
}

Answer 3

A shorter version:

OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
fos.write(IOUtils.read(in));
out.close();
in.close();

Answer 4

Kotlin version (tested and no library needed):

fun copyStreamToFile(inputStream: InputStream, outputFile: File) {
    inputStream.use { input ->
        val outputStream = FileOutputStream(outputFile)
        outputStream.use { output ->
            val buffer = ByteArray(4 * 1024) // buffer size
            while (true) {
                val byteCount = input.read(buffer)
                if (byteCount < 0) break
                output.write(buffer, 0, byteCount)
            }
            output.flush()
        }
    }
}

We take advantage of use function which will automatically close both streams at the end.

The streams are closed down correctly even in case an exception occurs.

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.io/use.html
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/kotlin-for-py/scoped-resource-usage.html

Answer 5

Here it is, input is your inputStream. Then use same File (name) and FileInputStream to read the data in future.

try {
    File file = new File(getCacheDir(), "cacheFileAppeal.srl");
    try (OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(file)) {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[4 * 1024]; // or other buffer size
        int read;

        while ((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            output.write(buffer, 0, read);
        }

        output.flush();
    }
} finally {
    input.close();
}

Answer 6

Here is a solution which handles all the Exceptions and is based on the previous answers:

void writeStreamToFile(InputStream input, File file) {
    try {
        try (OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(file)) {
            byte[] buffer = new byte[4 * 1024]; // or other buffer size
            int read;
            while ((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                output.write(buffer, 0, read);
            }
            output.flush();
        }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        try {
            input.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}