Java - Write code to convert Stream To String

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Requirements

Write code to convert Stream To String

Demo

//package com.book2s;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

public class Main {
    @Deprecated//ww  w .  ja v a2 s.  c  o  m
    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 "";
        }
    }

    public static String toString(Object[] array) {
        int len = array.length;
        if (len == 0)
            return "";
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(len * 12);
        for (int i = 0; i < len - 1; i++) {
            buf.append(array[i]).append(", ");
        }
        return buf.append(array[len - 1]).toString();
    }

    public static String toString(Object object) {
        return (object == null) ? null : object.toString();
    }
}

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