Read content of file which is ZIPed

Question

I need to read contents of a file which is present in ZIP file.
The zip file is present on online server. I am able to get the Zip Input stream for the Zip file and also able to retrive the file names which are present but when I am trying to retrive the content of file is get a String which has only the file names of the zip. Please suggest what to do.
Following is my Code.
// aConn.getInputStream() Gives me access to Zip file present on online Server
ZipInputStream fileIn = new ZipInputStream(aConn.getInputStream());
             anEntry = inputStream.getNextEntry();
             if (anEntry != null) {
                  String filename = arEntry.getFilename();
                                        byte[] b = new byte[2024];
                  fileIn.read(b);
                             sb.append(b.toString());
             }

Answer 1

Reading an input stream into an array of bytes and then calling toString() on that byte array isn't going to give you the contents of the input stream meaningfully. For one thing it might not even be textual data. And secondly that's not how you get textual data.
A better approach would probably be to get the number of bytes of the given entry from the ZipEntry.getSize method, create a byte array of that size, load only that many bytes, and then (if you're sure it's text data) send the byte array to a String constructor. Or you could use a java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream for that. Note that you'll need to know the character encoding for this.