char[] to InputStream

[_underdog]

Say I have a method that takes a File or a InputStream as an argument, but I have the data in a String or char[]. It would be stupid to write it out to a file and then read it back in. Is there some easy way I can put this data into an InputStream that can be passed to the method.

[inkedmn]

what exactly are you trying to do?

[_underdog]

I am trying to do XML transformations of an XML file that is stored in a zip archive. When I read the zip entry from the zip file it is in a byte[]. I wanted to use that as a source for my transform.. I found that I could use a ByteArrayInputStream.

//xmlData is a byte[]
Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlData));

[phubuh]

Characters aren't bytes. Characters are characters.


Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new StringBufferInputStream(new StringBuffer(xmlData)));

[_underdog]

JavaTM 2 Platform
Std. Ed. v1.4.0

java.io
Class StringBufferInputStream

Deprecated. This class does not properly convert characters into bytes. As of JDK 1.1, the preferred way to create a stream from a string is via the StringReader class.

But that was not the point of what I was trying to do... I had read data in from a file into a buffer and I wanted to use this data in a method (in this case it was the costructor for a StreamSource) that took as arguments a File or an InputStream. The ByteArrayInputStream worked great.

Is there any way something like this could have been achieved if the only argument allowed had been a File?