Java URL Load readLines(final URL url)

Description

Reads lines from the given URL as a list of strings.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
url	The URL to read the content from.

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	When it was not possible to read the content of the given URL.

Return

A list of lines in the content in the original order.

Declaration

public static List<String> readLines(final URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

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import java.io.BufferedReader;

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

import java.net.URL;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Reads lines from the given URL as a list of strings.
     *
     * @param url
     *       The URL to read the content from.
     * @return A list of lines in the content in the original order.
     * @throws IOException
     *       When it was not possible to read the content of the given URL.
     */
    public static List<String> readLines(final URL url) throws IOException {
        List<String> results = new ArrayList<>();

        try (InputStream is = url.openStream();
                InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr)) {

            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                results.add(line);
            }
        }

        return results;
    }
}

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