/**
* This method only uses the default Commons HttpClient implementation when the URL object
* represents a HTTP resource. The URL object could also represent a file or some JNDI resource.
* In that case, the default Java implementation is used.
*
* @return A string representation of the resource referenced by the URL object
*/
public String URLtoString(URL url) throws IOException {
String xml = null;
if (url != null) {
String protocol = url.getProtocol().toLowerCase();
if (protocol.startsWith(Http.HTTP) || protocol.startsWith(Http.HTTPS)) {
return URLtoString(url.toString());
}
URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
UnsyncByteArrayOutputStream unsyncByteArrayOutputStream = new UnsyncByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] bytes = new byte[512];
for (int i = inputStream.read(bytes, 0, 512); i != -1; i = inputStream.read(bytes, 0, 512)) {
unsyncByteArrayOutputStream.write(bytes, 0, i);
}
xml =
new String(
unsyncByteArrayOutputStream.unsafeGetByteArray(),
0,
unsyncByteArrayOutputStream.size());
inputStream.close();
unsyncByteArrayOutputStream.close();
}
return xml;
}
