public static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) throws IOException {
/*
* To convert the InputStream to String we use the Reader.read(char[]
* buffer) method. We iterate until the Reader return -1 which means there's
* no more data to read. We use the StringWriter class to produce the
* string.
*/
if (is != null) {
Writer writer = new StringWriter();
char[] buffer = new char[1024];
try {
Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
int n;
while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
writer.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
} finally {
is.close();
}
return writer.toString();
} else {
return "";
}
}
