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import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class StreamToString {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       StreamToString sts = new StreamToString();

       InputStream is = sts.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/data.txt");

       /*
        * Call the method to convert the 
        * stream to string
        */
       System.out.println(sts.convertStreamToString(is));
   }

   public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) throws IOException {
       /*
        * To convert the InputStream to String
        * we use the BufferedReader.readLine() 
        * method. Each line will appended to a
        * StringBuilder and returned as String.
        */
       if (is != null) {
           StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
           String line = null;

           try {
              BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
                 sb.append(line).append("\n");
            
           } catch (Exception e) {
                //Do something..
           } finally {
               is.close();
           }
           return sb.toString();
       } else {      
           return "";
       }
   }
}