I want to convert an output stream into String object

Question

I want to convert an OutputStream into a String object. I am having an OutputStream object returned after marshalling the JAXB object.

Answer 1

public String readFile(String pathname) throws IOException {
    File file = new File(pathname);
    StringBuilder fileContents = new StringBuilder((int) file.length());
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
    String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");

    try {
        while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
            fileContents.append(scanner.nextLine() + lineSeparator);
        }
        return fileContents.toString();
    }
    finally {
        scanner.close();
    }
}    

Method to handle the XML and convert it to a string.

JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(ClassMatchingStartofXMLTags.class);
    Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
    //store filepath to be used
    String filePath = "YourXMLFile.xml";
    File xmlFile = new File(filePath);
    //Set up xml Marshaller
    ClassMatchingStartofXMLTags xmlMarshaller = (ClassMatchingStartofXMLTags) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xmlFileEdit);
    Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
    marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
    // Use marshall to output the contents of the xml file
    System.out.println("Marshalled XML\n");
    marshaller.marshal(xmlMarshaller, System.out); 
    //Use Readfile method to convert the XML to a string and output the results
    System.out.println("\nXML to String");
    String strFile = ReadFile(xmlFile)
    System.out.println(strFile);     

Method within your class to get the XML and Marshall it Edit The above method will both output the marshalled xml and also the xml as a string.