Java: PrintStream to String?

Question

I have a function that takes an object of a certain type, and a PrintStream to which to print, and outputs a representation of that object. How can I capture this f

Answer 1

You can construct a PrintStream with a ByteArrayOutputStream passed into the constructor which you can later use to grab the text written to the PrintStream.

ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(os);
...
String output = os.toString("UTF8");