InputStream to String Conversion Example
Converting InputStream to String in Java has become very easy after introduction of Scanner class in Java 5 and due to development of several open source libraries like Apache commons IOUtils and Google Open source guava-libraries which provides excellent support to convert InputStream to String in Java program. we often need to convert InputStream to String while working in Java for example if you are reading XML files from InputStream and later performing XSLT transformation on it or if InputStream is reading data from text file or text input Source and we either want to log Strings in log file or want to operate on whole String. Before Java 5 you would have to write lots of boiler plate code to read String line by line or byte by byte depending upon whether you are using either BufferedReader or not but as I said since JDK 5 added Scanner for reading input, its fairly easy to convert InputStream into String.
