Compare two InputStream in Java

Description

The following code shows how to compare two InputStream.

Example


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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Arrays;
/**
 * @author Randall Hauch
 */
public class Main {
  /**
   * Compare two input stream
   * 
   * @param input1 the first stream
   * @param input2 the second stream
   * @return true if the streams contain the same content, or false otherwise
   * @throws IOException
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the stream is null
   */
  public static boolean isSame( InputStream input1,
                                InputStream input2 ) throws IOException {
      boolean error = false;
      try {
          byte[] buffer1 = new byte[1024];
          byte[] buffer2 = new byte[1024];
          try {
              int numRead1 = 0;
              int numRead2 = 0;
              while (true) {
                  numRead1 = input1.read(buffer1);
                  numRead2 = input2.read(buffer2);
                  if (numRead1 > -1) {
                      if (numRead2 != numRead1) return false;
                      // Otherwise same number of bytes read
                      if (!Arrays.equals(buffer1, buffer2)) return false;
                      // Otherwise same bytes read, so continue ...
                  } else {
                      // Nothing more in stream 1 ...
                      return numRead2 < 0;
                  }
              }
          } finally {
              input1.close();
          }
      } catch (IOException e) {
          error = true; // this error should be thrown, even if there is an error closing stream 2
          throw e;
      } catch (RuntimeException e) {
          error = true; // this error should be thrown, even if there is an error closing stream 2
          throw e;
      } finally {
          try {
              input2.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {
              if (!error) throw e;
          }
      }
  }
}




















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