It will kind of work, although readLine discards the line end character, which
you might well want when parsing the string. And you may want to consider the
character set used in the InputStreamReader.
Coincidentally I wrote this code yesterday
public static String readFully(Reader input) throws IOException {
BufferedReader bufferedReader = input instanceof BufferedReader
? (BufferedReader) input
: new BufferedReader(input);
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
char[] buffer = new char[4 * 1024];
int charsRead;
while ((charsRead = bufferedReader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
result.append(buffer, 0, charsRead);
}
return result.toString();
}
Call this with doc = readFully(new
InputStreamReader(get.getResponseBodyAsStream(), YOURCHARSET));
Another good bet would be Jakarta Commons IO - IOUtils.toString(Reader)
Duncan Mc^Gregor
The name rings a bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Taft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 November 2004 07:03
To: HttpClient User Discussion
Subject: getResponseBodyAsStream
HttpClient keeps begging me to use getResponseBodyAsStream, rather than
getResponseBodyAsString, due to the size of the response body. I'm willing to do
this, even if just to make it happy. However, as a total newbie, I'm not clear
about the best way to take a response stream and turn it into a string (that I
can then parse, which is what I'm up to).
I realize this is a trivial task for most of you. Here is how I propose to do
it:
------
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); try { InputStream is =
get.getResponseBodyAsStream(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(is)); String str = "";
while(str != null)
{
str = in.readLine();
buffer.append(str);
}
} catch(IOException e)
(
...etc.
}
------
My questions about this are:
1) Will this work?
2) Is there a better way to do it?
Thanks.
M.
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