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While creating a library that wraps up asynchronous http connection requests I wrote a handy helper function that takes an open HttpURLConnection and reads the resulting input stream into a String. I figured it was useful to me, so it may be useful to someone else as well. I continue on in my library to parse the String into either XML or JSON; this function simply returns a raw String for you to use as you please.
private String TAG = "MyAwesomeApp";
/**
* @param connection object; note: before calling this function,
* ensure that the connection is already be open, and any writes to
* the connection's output stream should have already been completed.
* @return String containing the body of the connection response or
* null if the input stream could not be read correctly
*/
private String readInputStreamToString(HttpURLConnection connection) {
String result = null;
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
InputStream is = null;
try {
is = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String inputLine = "";
while ((inputLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(inputLine);
}
result = sb.toString();
}
catch (Exception e) {
Log.i(TAG, "Error reading InputStream");
result = null;
}
finally {
if (is != null) {
try {
is.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
Log.i(TAG, "Error closing InputStream");
}
}
}
return result;
}
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by Shayla Sawchenko
