Java URL Connection getURLContentsAsString(URL url)

Description

Get the contents of a URL as a string

License

Apache License

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	an exception

Declaration

public static String getURLContentsAsString(URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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/**
 ** Copyright 2016 General Electric Company
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package com.ge.research.semtk.utility;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

/*
 * Utility methods
 */

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Get the contents of a URL as a string
     * @throws IOException 
     */
    public static String getURLContentsAsString(URL url) throws IOException {
        StringBuffer ret = new StringBuffer();
        BufferedReader br = null;
        try {
            URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
            br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                ret.append(line).append("\n");
            }
        } finally {
            if (br != null) {
                br.close();
            }
        }
        return ret.toString();
    }
}

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