Obtains the contents of the specified stream as a byte array - Java java.lang

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Obtains the contents of the specified stream as a byte array

Demo Code

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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class Main{
    private static final Logger log = Logger
            .getLogger(ByteArrayIOUtil.class.getName());
    /**
     * Obtains the contents of the specified stream as a byte array
     *
     * @param in InputStream
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the stream was not specified
     * @return the byte[] for the given InputStream
     */
    static byte[] asByteArray(final InputStream in)
            throws IllegalArgumentException {

        // Precondition check
        if (in == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("stream must be specified");
        }

        // Get content as an array of bytes
        final ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(8192);
        final int len = 4096;
        final byte[] buffer = new byte[len];
        int read = 0;
        try {
            while (((read = in.read(buffer)) != -1)) {
                out.write(buffer, 0, read);
            }
        } catch (final IOException ioe) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Error in obtainting bytes from "
                    + in, ioe);
        } finally {
            try {
                in.close();
            } catch (final IOException ignore) {
                if (log.isLoggable(Level.FINER)) {
                    log.finer("Could not close stream due to: "
                            + ignore.getMessage() + "; ignoring");
                }
            }
            // We don't need to close the outstream, it's a byte array out
        }

        // Represent as byte array
        final byte[] content = out.toByteArray();

        // Return
        return content;
    }
}

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