java - How to easily convert a BufferedReader to a String?

Question

@POST
@Path("/getphotos")
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
public String getPhotos() throws IOException{
    // DataInputStream rd = new DataInputStream(request.getInputStream());
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(request.getInputStream(), "UTF-8")
    );
    String line = null;
    String message = new String();
    final StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(2048);
    while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
        // buffer.append(line);
        message += line;
    }
    System.out.println(message);
    JsonObject json = new JsonObject(message);
    return message;
}

The code above is for my servlet. Its purpose is to get a stream, make a a Json file from it, and then send the Json to the client back. But in order to make Json, I have to read BufferedReader object rd using a "while" loop. However I'd like to convert rd to string in as few lines of code as possible. How do I do that?

Answer 1

From Java 8:

rd.lines().collect(Collectors.joining());