Java String to InputStream

Learn to convert Java String to InputStream using ByteArrayInputStream and IOUtils classes. Writing String to Steam is a frequent job in Java and having a couple of good shortcuts will prove useful.

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1. ByteArrayInputStream

Using ByteArrayInputStream is simplest way to create InputStream from string. using this approach, we do not need any external dependency.

Example 1: Creating an InputStream from a String

The getBytes() method encodes the String into a sequence of bytes using the platform’s default charset. To use a different charset, use the method getBytes​(Charset charset).

The StandardCharsets class provides the constant definitions for the standard charsets. For example, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class ConvertStringToInputStreamExample
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      String sampleString = "howtodoinjava.com";
	  
	  //Here converting string to inputstream
      InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(sampleString.getBytes());
   }
}

2. IOUtils – Apache Commons IO

IOUtils is very useful class for IO operations in Java. This solution is also pretty good because apache commons is very much a mostly included jar in most applications.

IOUtils.toInputStream() makes code very much readable. It is an overloaded method so use the desired encoding while invoking this method.

static InputStream toInputStream(String input)    //Deprecated
static InputStream toInputStream(String input, Charset encoding)
static InputStream toInputStream(String input, String encoding)

Example 2: How to create InputStream from a String in Java

import java.io.InputStream;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class ConvertStringToInputStreamExample
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      String sampleString = "howtodoinjava.com";
	  
      //Here converting the string to the inputstream
      InputStream stream = IOUtils.toInputStream(sampleString, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
   }
}

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