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package org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker.util;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
/**
* @author <a href="mailto:joe@binamics.com">Joe Hudson</a>
*/
public class StringUtil {
/**
* Return the contents of the Stream as a String.
* Note: If the InputStream represents a null String, the Java implementation will try to read from the stream for a certain amount of time
* before timing out.
* @param is the InputStream to transform into a String
* @return the String representation of the Stream
*/
public static String getStringFromStream (InputStream is)
throws IOException
{
try {
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is);
char[] buffer = new char[1024];
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
int bytes_read;
while ((bytes_read = reader.read(buffer)) != -1)
{
writer.write(buffer, 0, bytes_read);
}
return (writer.toString());
}
finally {
if (null != is) is.close();
}
}
}