How to Cache InputStream for Multiple Use

Question

I have an InputStream of a file and i use apache poi components to read from it like this:

POIFSFileSystem fileSystem = new POIFSFileSystem(inputStream);
         


        

Answer 1

This works correctly:

byte[] bytes = getBytes(inputStream);
POIFSFileSystem fileSystem = new POIFSFileSystem(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));

where getBytes is like this:

private static byte[] getBytes(InputStream is) throws IOException {
    byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(2048);
int n;
baos.reset();

while ((n = is.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1) {
      baos.write(buffer, 0, n);
    }

   return baos.toByteArray();
 }