What exactly returns EntityUtils.toString(response)?

Question

I\'m doing my API REST and I saw that in a lot of examples people use EntityUtils.toString(response) to get their response into a String

Answer 1

An HttpEntity represents the content of the body of an HTTP response. EntityUtils.toString(HttpEntity) interprets that content as a String and returns it to you.

If your HTTP response is something like this

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 80



    

Then the String returned by EntityUtils.toString(HttpEntity) will simply contain