Guava equivalent for IOUtils.toString(InputStream)

Question

Apache Commons IO has a nice convenience method IOUtils.toString() to read an InputStream to a String.

Since I am trying to move away from Apache Common

Answer 1

For a concrete example, here's how I can read an Android text file asset:

public static String getAssetContent(Context context, String file) {
    InputStreamReader reader = null;
    InputStream stream = null;
    String output = "";

    try {
        stream = context.getAssets().open(file);
        reader = new InputStreamReader(stream, Charsets.UTF_8);
        output = CharStreams.toString(reader);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (stream != null) {
            try {
                stream.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

        if (reader != null) {
            try {
                reader.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    return output;
}