InputStream to fileReader

[asit dhal]

just go through the following code

URL fUrl = new URL("http://money.rediff.com/mobile");
	  FileReader reader = null;
	  URLConnection connection = null;
		try {
			connection = fUrl.openConnection();
			//scanner = new Scanner(connection.getInputStream());
			reader = new FileReader(connection.getInputStream());
		}
		catch(IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}

here the problem is at the line

reader = new FileReader(connection.getInputStream());

how can I convert InputStream to fileReader ?

[Paul Clapham]

You can't. But why do you think you need a FileReader, anyway? Can't you use some other kind of Reader?

[asit dhal]

@Paul

please help me out.

[Paul Clapham]

asit dhal wrote:@Paul

please help me out.

In what way? I asked you a question. That was intended to help you out. You can ignore it if you aren't interested in any help.

[asit dhal]

@Paul

Sorry, I didn't read your question properly.

I have a utility class which takes FileReader object as a parameter. I can't modify that.

[Paul Clapham]

No competent writer of utility classes would write something which accepted a FileReader, when accepting a Reader would be much more user-friendly. So in my opinion it should really be changed.

But I'm sure you are right, you won't have the power to get it changed, no matter how badly it was originally written. In the meantime your workaround is to read the data from that InputStream and write it to a file on the local disk. Then get a FileReader from that file once you have finished that step.