Help with input streams

Question

hello/
i need an InputStream for the constructor of my SAXBuilder object below.
i have this working, however, i would like to read everything from the
InputStream first and save the value into a String object before I pass the InputStream to the SAXBuilder. how do i go about doing this?
thx/f
// Open an input stream to the URL and read it into a byte array.
BufferedInputStream bufferedInput =
new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
// Create a new SAX builder.SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
// Read the portal response back and save it as an XML document.
Document response = builder.build(bufferedInput);

Answer 1

But you have now read from your input stream and need to reset it so
InputStream is = urlConn.getInputStream();
if ( is.markSupported() ) {
   is.reset();
else {
   is.close();
   is = new ByteArrayInputStream( docStr.toString().getBytes() );
Now you can pass your InputStream into your SaxBuilder, and have your string of what it contains.