public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is)

throws IOException {

//

// To convert the InputStream to String we use the

// Reader.read(char[] buffer) method. We iterate until the

// Reader return -1 which means there's no more data to

// read. We use the StringWriter class to produce the string.

//

if (is != null) {

Writer writer = new StringWriter();

 

char[] buffer = new char[1024];

try {

Reader reader = new BufferedReader(

new InputStreamReader(is, "iso-8859-1"));

int n;

while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {

writer.write(buffer, 0, n);

}

} finally {

is.close();

}

return writer.toString();

} else {

return "";

}

}