StreamUtils.java

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package com.aptana.ide.io;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;

/**
 * @author Kevin Lindsey
 */
public class StreamUtils
{
	/**
	 * Protected constructor for utility class.
	 */
	protected StreamUtils()
	{
	}

	/**
	 * getText
	 * 
	 * @param stream
	 * @return String or null
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public static String getText(InputStream stream) throws IOException
	{
		return getText(stream, null);
	}

	/**
	 * getText
	 * 
	 * @param stream
	 * @param charset
	 * @return String or null
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public static String getText(InputStream stream, String charset) throws IOException
	{
		String result = null;

		if (stream != null)
		{
			InputStreamReader inputReader;

			if (charset != null)
			{
				inputReader = new InputStreamReader(stream, charset);
			}
			else
			{
				inputReader = new InputStreamReader(stream);
			}

			BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(inputReader);
			StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

			try
			{
				char[] chars = new char[1024];
				int numRead = reader.read(chars);

				while (numRead != -1)
				{
					sw.write(chars, 0, numRead);
					numRead = reader.read(chars);
				}
			}
			finally
			{
				reader.close();
			}

			result = sw.toString();
		}

		return result;
	}

}