Convert InputStream to byte array in Java

Question

How do I read an entire InputStream into a byte array?

Answer 1

This is my copy-paste version:

@SuppressWarnings("empty-statement")
public static byte[] inputStreamToByte(InputStream is) throws IOException {
    if (is == null) {
        return null;
    }
    // Define a size if you have an idea of it.
    ByteArrayOutputStream r = new ByteArrayOutputStream(2048);
    byte[] read = new byte[512]; // Your buffer size.
    for (int i; -1 != (i = is.read(read)); r.write(read, 0, i));
    is.close();
    return r.toByteArray();
}

Answer 2

Safe solution (with capability of close streams correctly):

• Java 9+ version:

  final byte[] bytes;
  try (inputStream) {
      bytes = inputStream.readAllBytes();
  }
  

• Java 8 version:

  public static byte[] readAllBytes(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
      final int bufLen = 4 * 0x400; // 4KB
      byte[] buf = new byte[bufLen];
      int readLen;
      IOException exception = null;
  
      try {
          try (ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
              while ((readLen = inputStream.read(buf, 0, bufLen)) != -1)
                  outputStream.write(buf, 0, readLen);
  
              return outputStream.toByteArray();
          }
      } catch (IOException e) {
          exception = e;
          throw e;
      } finally {
          if (exception == null) inputStream.close();
          else try {
              inputStream.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {
              exception.addSuppressed(e);
          }
      }
  }
  

• Kotlin version (compatible with Java ≤8):

  @Throws(IOException::class)
  fun InputStream.readAllBytes(): ByteArray {
      val bufLen = 4 * 0x400 // 4KB
      val buf = ByteArray(bufLen)
      var readLen: Int = 0
  
      ByteArrayOutputStream().use { o ->
          this.use { i ->
              while (i.read(buf, 0, bufLen).also { readLen = it } != -1)
                  o.write(buf, 0, readLen)
          }
  
          return o.toByteArray()
      }
  }
  

  To avoid nested use see here.

Answer 3

I tried to edit @numan's answer with a fix for writing garbage data but edit was rejected. While this short piece of code is nothing brilliant I can't see any other better answer. Here's what makes most sense to me:

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; // you can configure the buffer size
int length;

while ((length = in.read(buffer)) != -1) out.write(buffer, 0, length); //copy streams
in.close(); // call this in a finally block

byte[] result = out.toByteArray();

btw ByteArrayOutputStream need not be closed. try/finally constructs omitted for readability

Answer 4

Java 8 way (thanks to BufferedReader and Adam Bien)

private static byte[] readFully(InputStream input) throws IOException {
    try (BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input))) {
        return buffer.lines().collect(Collectors.joining("\n")).getBytes(<charset_can_be_specified>);
    }
}

Note that this solution wipes carriage return ('\r') and can be inappropriate.

Answer 5

Input Stream is ...
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int next = in.read();
while (next > -1) {
    bos.write(next);
    next = in.read();
}
bos.flush();
byte[] result = bos.toByteArray();
bos.close();

Answer 6

We are seeing some delay for few AWS transaction, while converting S3 object to ByteArray.

Note: S3 Object is PDF document (max size is 3 mb).

We are using the option #1 (org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils) to convert the S3 object to ByteArray. We have noticed S3 provide the inbuild IOUtils method to convert the S3 object to ByteArray, we are request you to confirm what is the best way to convert the S3 object to ByteArray to avoid the delay.

Option #1:

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
is = s3object.getObjectContent();
content =IOUtils.toByteArray(is);

Option #2:

import com.amazonaws.util.IOUtils;
is = s3object.getObjectContent();
content =IOUtils.toByteArray(is);

Also let me know if we have any other better way to convert the s3 object to bytearray