Get an OutputStream into a String

What's the best way to pipe the output from an java.io.OutputStream to a String in Java?

Say I have the method:

  writeToStream(Object o, OutputStream out)

Which writes certain data from the object to the given stream. However, I want to get this output into a String as easily as possible.

I'm considering writing a class like this (untested):

class StringOutputStream extends OutputStream {

  StringBuilder mBuf;

  public void write(int byte) throws IOException {
    mBuf.append((char) byte);
  }

  public String getString() {
    return mBuf.toString();
  }
}

But is there a better way? I only want to run a test!


I would use a ByteArrayOutputStream . And on finish you can call:

new String( baos.toByteArray(), codepage );

or better

baos.toString( codepage );

For the String constructor the codepage can be a String or an instance of java.nio.charset.Charset. A possible value is java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8.

The method toString accept only a String as codepage parameter (stand Java 8).


I like the Apache Commons IO library. Take a look at its version of ByteArrayOutputStream, which has a toString(String enc) method as well as toByteArray() . Using existing and trusted components like the Commons project lets your code be smaller and easier to extend and repurpose. Good luck.


this worked nicely

    OutputStream output = new OutputStream()
    {
        private StringBuilder string = new StringBuilder();
        @Override
        public void write(int b) throws IOException {
            this.string.append((char) b );
        }

        //Netbeans IDE automatically overrides this toString()
        public String toString(){
            return this.string.toString();
        }
    };

method call =>> marshaller.marshal( (Object) toWrite , (OutputStream) output);

then to print the string or get it just reference the "output" stream itself As an example, to print the string out to console =>> System.out.println(output);

FYI: my method call marshaller.marshal(Object,Outputstream) is for working with xml. It is irrelevant to this topic.

This is higly wasteful for productional use, there are way to many conversion and it is a bit loose. This was just coded to prove to you that it is totally possible to create a custom OuputStream and output a string. But just go Horcrux7 way and all is good with merely two method calls.

And the world lives on another day....

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