Convert InputStream to String with specified encoding in Java

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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;

/**
 * Collection of static methods for converting strings between different formats
 * and to and from byte arrays.
 * 
 * 
 * Includes some methods based on Hypersonic code as indicated.
 * 
 * @author Thomas Mueller (Hypersonic SQL Group)
 * @author Fred Toussi (fredt@users dot sourceforge.net)
 * @version 1.9.0
 * @since 1.7.2
 */
public class Main {

  private static final byte[] HEXBYTES = { (byte) '0', (byte) '1', (byte) '2', (byte) '3',
      (byte) '4', (byte) '5', (byte) '6', (byte) '7', (byte) '8', (byte) '9', (byte) 'a',
      (byte) 'b', (byte) 'c', (byte) 'd', (byte) 'e', (byte) 'f' };


  /**
   * Using a Reader and a Writer, returns a String from an InputStream.
   *
   * Method based on Hypersonic Code
   *
   * @param x InputStream to read from
   * @throws IOException
   * @return a Java string
   */
  public static String inputStreamToString(InputStream x,
          String encoding) throws IOException {

      InputStreamReader in        = new InputStreamReader(x, encoding);
      StringWriter      writer    = new StringWriter();
      int               blocksize = 8 * 1024;
      char[]            buffer    = new char[blocksize];

      for (;;) {
          int read = in.read(buffer);

          if (read == -1) {
              break;
          }

          writer.write(buffer, 0, read);
      }

      writer.close();

      return writer.toString();
  }
}

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