InetUtils.java

/*
 * Copyright 2006-2015 The MZmine 3 Development Team
 * 
 * This file is part of MZmine 3.
 * 
 * MZmine 3 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
 * General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
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 * even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 * 
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 * write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
 * USA
 */

package io.github.mzmine.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

/**
 * Internet related utilities
 */
public class InetUtils {

  /**
   * Opens a connection to the given URL (typically HTTP) and retrieves the data from server. Data
   * is assumed to be in UTF-8 encoding.
   */
  public static String retrieveData(URL url) throws IOException {

    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestProperty("User-agent", "MZmine 3");
    InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();

    if (is == null) {
      throw new IOException("Could not establish a connection to " + url);
    }

    StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();

    try {
      InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");

      char[] cb = new char[1024];

      int amtRead = reader.read(cb);
      while (amtRead > 0) {
        buffer.append(cb, 0, amtRead);
        amtRead = reader.read(cb);
      }

    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
      // This should never happen, because UTF-8 is supported
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

    is.close();

    return buffer.toString();

  }

}