How to convert FileInputStream to InputStream?

java fileinputstream
ranjan picture ranjan · Jun 19, 2012 · Viewed 291.4k times · Source

I just want to convert a FileInputStream to an InputStream, how can I do that?

e.g 

FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("c://filename");
InputStream is = ?; 
fis.close();

Answer

Kumar Vivek Mitra picture Kumar Vivek Mitra · Jun 19, 2012 
InputStream is;

try {
    is = new FileInputStream("c://filename");

    is.close(); 
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

return is;

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