Read text from InputStream [duplicate]

Answer 1

Using Commons-IO is likely to be the best option. For your interest, another approach is to copy all the bytes and then convert it into a String.

public static String readText(InputStream is, String charset) throws IOException {
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    byte[] bytes = new byte[4096];
    for(int len;(len = is.read(bytes))>0;)
        baos.write(bytes, 0, len);
    return new String(baos.toByteArray(), charset);
}