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Log response body in case of exception

I am using retrofit for http calls with gson as a converter.
In some cases I get exceptions thrown when gson tries to convert response to object and I would like to know what is the actual response in such case.
For example:
This is the exception message I get:
Expected a string but was BEGIN_OBJECT at line 1 column 26 path $[0].date
The code that execute the call is like this:
Gson gson = gsonBuilder.create();
Retrofit retrofit = (new retrofit2.Retrofit.Builder()).baseUrl(baseUrl).addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson)).client(httpClient).build();
MyService service = retrofit.create(clazz);
...
Response<T> response = service.call().execute();
When this code throws exception I would like to log the raw response body somehow. How can I do that?

I don't think it can be accomplished easily. Retrofit does not seem to provide an easy way of tracking input streams (the most natural place I was thinking of was CallAdapter.Factory but it does not allow invalid response tracking).
Basically, illegal response conversion should be detected in a particular converter whose only responsibility is logging invalid payloads. Sounds pretty much like the Decorator design pattern. Since Java (unlike Kotlin?) does not support decorators as a first-class citizen, forwarding implementations can be implemented similarly to Google Guava Forwarding*** classes:
ForwardingInputStream.java
#SuppressWarnings("resource")
abstract class ForwardingInputStream
extends InputStream {
protected abstract InputStream inputStream();
// #formatter:off
#Override public int read() throws IOException { return inputStream().read(); }
// #formatter:on
// #formatter:off
#Override public int read(final byte[] b) throws IOException { return inputStream().read(b); }
#Override public int read(final byte[] b, final int off, final int len) throws IOException { return inputStream().read(b, off, len); }
#Override public long skip(final long n) throws IOException { return inputStream().skip(n); }
#Override public int available() throws IOException { return inputStream().available(); }
#Override public void close() throws IOException { inputStream().close(); }
#Override public void mark(final int readlimit) { inputStream().mark(readlimit); }
#Override public void reset() throws IOException { inputStream().reset(); }
#Override public boolean markSupported() { return inputStream().markSupported(); }
// #formatter:on
}
ForwardingResponseBody.java
#SuppressWarnings("resource")
abstract class ForwardingResponseBody
extends ResponseBody {
protected abstract ResponseBody responseBody();
// #formatter:off
#Override public MediaType contentType() { return responseBody().contentType(); }
#Override public long contentLength() { return responseBody().contentLength(); }
#Override public BufferedSource source() { return responseBody().source(); }
// #formatter:on
// #formatter:off
#Override public void close() { super.close(); }
// #formatter:on
}
ForwardingBufferedSource.java
abstract class ForwardingBufferedSource
implements BufferedSource {
protected abstract BufferedSource bufferedSource();
// #formatter:off
#Override public Buffer buffer() { return bufferedSource().buffer(); }
#Override public boolean exhausted() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().exhausted(); }
#Override public void require(final long byteCount) throws IOException { bufferedSource().require(byteCount); }
#Override public boolean request(final long byteCount) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().request(byteCount); }
#Override public byte readByte() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readByte(); }
#Override public short readShort() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readShort(); }
#Override public short readShortLe() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readShortLe(); }
#Override public int readInt() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readInt(); }
#Override public int readIntLe() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readIntLe(); }
#Override public long readLong() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readLong(); }
#Override public long readLongLe() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readLongLe(); }
#Override public long readDecimalLong() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readDecimalLong(); }
#Override public long readHexadecimalUnsignedLong() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readHexadecimalUnsignedLong(); }
#Override public void skip(final long byteCount) throws IOException { bufferedSource().skip(byteCount); }
#Override public ByteString readByteString() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readByteString(); }
#Override public ByteString readByteString(final long byteCount) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readByteString(byteCount); }
#Override public int select(final Options options) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().select(options); }
#Override public byte[] readByteArray() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readByteArray(); }
#Override public byte[] readByteArray(final long byteCount) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readByteArray(byteCount); }
#Override public int read(final byte[] sink) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().read(sink); }
#Override public void readFully(final byte[] sink) throws IOException { bufferedSource().readFully(sink); }
#Override public int read(final byte[] sink, final int offset, final int byteCount) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().read(sink, offset, byteCount); }
#Override public void readFully(final Buffer sink, final long byteCount) throws IOException { bufferedSource().readFully(sink, byteCount); }
#Override public long readAll(final Sink sink) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readAll(sink); }
#Override public String readUtf8() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readUtf8(); }
#Override public String readUtf8(final long byteCount) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readUtf8(byteCount); }
#Override public String readUtf8Line() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readUtf8Line(); }
#Override public String readUtf8LineStrict() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readUtf8LineStrict(); }
#Override public int readUtf8CodePoint() throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readUtf8CodePoint(); }
#Override public String readString(final Charset charset) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readString(charset); }
#Override public String readString(final long byteCount, final Charset charset) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().readString(byteCount, charset); }
#Override public long indexOf(final byte b) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().indexOf(b); }
#Override public long indexOf(final byte b, final long fromIndex) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().indexOf(b, fromIndex); }
#Override public long indexOf(final ByteString bytes) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().indexOf(bytes); }
#Override public long indexOf(final ByteString bytes, final long fromIndex) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().indexOf(bytes, fromIndex); }
#Override public long indexOfElement(final ByteString targetBytes) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().indexOfElement(targetBytes); }
#Override public long indexOfElement(final ByteString targetBytes, final long fromIndex) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().indexOfElement(targetBytes, fromIndex); }
#Override public InputStream inputStream() { return bufferedSource().inputStream(); }
#Override public long read(final Buffer sink, final long byteCount) throws IOException { return bufferedSource().read(sink, byteCount); }
#Override public Timeout timeout() { return bufferedSource().timeout(); }
#Override public void close() throws IOException { bufferedSource().close(); }
// #formatter:on
}
Trivial forwarding implementations just override all methods of their parent classes and delegate the job to a delegated object. Once a forwarding class is extended, some of the parent methods can be overridden again.
IConversionThrowableConsumer.java
This is just a listener used below.
interface IConversionThrowableConsumer {
/**
* Instantiating {#link okhttp3.ResponseBody} can be not easy due to the way of how {#link okio.BufferedSource} is designed -- too heavy.
* Deconstructing its components to "atoms" with some lack of functionality may be acceptable.
* However, this consumer may need some improvements on demand.
*/
void accept(MediaType contentType, long contentLength, InputStream inputStream, Throwable ex)
throws IOException;
}
ErrorReportingConverterFactory.java
The next step is implementating the error-reporting converter factory that can be injected to Retrofit.Builder and listen to any errors occurring in downstream converters. Note how it works:
For every response converter an intermediate converter is injected. It allows to listen to any error in downstream converters.
Downstream converters obtain a non-closeable resources in order not to close underlaying I/O resources prematurely...
Downstream converters convert whilst the intermediate converter collects the real input stream content into a buffer in order to respond with an input stream that may cause GsonConverter fail. This should be considered a bottleneck here due to possibly large size of the grown buffer (however, it may be limited), its internal array is copied when requested from the converter and so on.
If IOException or RuntimeException occur, the intermediate converter concatenates the buffered input stream content and the real input stream in order to let a consumer to accept input streams from the very beginning.
The intermediate converter takes care of closing resources itself.
final class ErrorReportingConverterFactory
extends Factory {
private final IConversionThrowableConsumer consumer;
private ErrorReportingConverterFactory(final IConversionThrowableConsumer consumer) {
this.consumer = consumer;
}
static Factory getErrorReportingConverterFactory(final IConversionThrowableConsumer listener) {
return new ErrorReportingConverterFactory(listener);
}
#Override
public Converter<ResponseBody, ?> responseBodyConverter(final Type type, final Annotation[] annotations, final Retrofit retrofit) {
return (Converter<ResponseBody, Object>) responseBody -> {
final ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
final InputStream realInputStream = responseBody.byteStream();
try {
final ForwardingResponseBody bufferingResponseBody = new BufferingNoCloseResponseBOdy(responseBody, byteArrayOutputStream);
final Converter<ResponseBody, Object> converter = retrofit.nextResponseBodyConverter(this, type, annotations);
return converter.convert(bufferingResponseBody);
} catch ( final RuntimeException | IOException ex ) {
final InputStream inputStream = concatInputStreams(new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray()), realInputStream);
consumer.accept(responseBody.contentType(), responseBody.contentLength(), inputStream, ex);
throw ex;
} finally {
responseBody.close();
}
};
}
private static class BufferingInputStream
extends ForwardingInputStream {
private final InputStream inputStream;
private final ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream;
private BufferingInputStream(final InputStream inputStream, final ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream) {
this.inputStream = inputStream;
this.byteArrayOutputStream = byteArrayOutputStream;
}
#Override
protected InputStream inputStream() {
return inputStream;
}
#Override
public int read()
throws IOException {
final int read = super.read();
if ( read != -1 ) {
byteArrayOutputStream.write(read);
}
return read;
}
#Override
public int read(final byte[] b)
throws IOException {
final int read = super.read(b);
if ( read != -1 ) {
byteArrayOutputStream.write(b, 0, read);
}
return read;
}
#Override
public int read(final byte[] b, final int off, final int len)
throws IOException {
final int read = super.read(b, off, len);
if ( read != -1 ) {
byteArrayOutputStream.write(b, off, read);
}
return read;
}
}
private static class BufferingNoCloseResponseBOdy
extends ForwardingResponseBody {
private final ResponseBody responseBody;
private final ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream;
private BufferingNoCloseResponseBOdy(final ResponseBody responseBody, final ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream) {
this.responseBody = responseBody;
this.byteArrayOutputStream = byteArrayOutputStream;
}
#Override
protected ResponseBody responseBody() {
return responseBody;
}
#Override
#SuppressWarnings("resource")
public BufferedSource source() {
final BufferedSource source = super.source();
return new ForwardingBufferedSource() {
#Override
protected BufferedSource bufferedSource() {
return source;
}
#Override
public InputStream inputStream() {
return new BufferingInputStream(super.inputStream(), byteArrayOutputStream);
}
};
}
/**
* Suppressing close due to automatic close in {#link ErrorReportingConverterFactory#responseBodyConverter(Type, Annotation[], Retrofit)}
*/
#Override
public void close() {
// do nothing
}
}
}
Note that this implementation uses forwarding classes heavily and only overrides what's necessary.
Also there are some utilities like concatenating input streams and adapting iterators to enumerations.
IteratorEnumeration.java
final class IteratorEnumeration<T>
implements Enumeration<T> {
private final Iterator<? extends T> iterator;
private IteratorEnumeration(final Iterator<? extends T> iterator) {
this.iterator = iterator;
}
static <T> Enumeration<T> iteratorEnumeration(final Iterator<? extends T> iterator) {
return new IteratorEnumeration<>(iterator);
}
#Override
public boolean hasMoreElements() {
return iterator.hasNext();
}
#Override
public T nextElement() {
return iterator.next();
}
}
InputStreams.java
final class InputStreams {
private InputStreams() {
}
static InputStream concatInputStreams(final InputStream... inputStreams) {
return inputStreams.length == 2
? new SequenceInputStream(inputStreams[0], inputStreams[1])
: new SequenceInputStream(iteratorEnumeration((Iterator<? extends InputStream>) asList(inputStreams).iterator()));
}
}
OutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer.java
Trivial logging implementation.
final class OutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer
implements IConversionThrowableConsumer {
private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 512;
private final PrintStream printStream;
private OutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer(final PrintStream printStream) {
this.printStream = printStream;
}
static IConversionThrowableConsumer getOutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer(final OutputStream outputStream) {
return new OutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer(new PrintStream(outputStream));
}
static IConversionThrowableConsumer getSystemOutConversionThrowableConsumer() {
return getOutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer(System.out);
}
static IConversionThrowableConsumer getSystemErrConversionThrowableConsumer() {
return getOutputStreamConversionThrowableConsumer(System.err);
}
#Override
public void accept(final MediaType contentType, final long contentLength, final InputStream inputStream, final Throwable ex)
throws IOException {
printStream.print("Content type: ");
printStream.println(contentType);
printStream.print("Content length: ");
printStream.println(contentLength);
printStream.print("Content: ");
final byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
int read;
while ( (read = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1 ) {
printStream.write(buffer, 0, read);
}
printStream.println();
}
}
Put all together
final Gson gson = new Gson();
final Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(...)
.addConverterFactory(getErrorReportingConverterFactory(getSystemOutConversionThrowableConsumer()))
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
.build();
final IWhateverService service = retrofit.create(IWhateverService.class);
final Call<...> call = service.getWhatever("test.json");
call.enqueue(new Callback<...>() {
#Override
public void onResponse(final Call<...> call, final Response<...> response) {
System.out.println(response.body());
}
#Override
public void onFailure(final Call<...> call, final Throwable throwable) {
throwable.printStackTrace(System.err);
}
});
Note that ErrorReportingConverterFactory must registered before the GsonConverterFactory. Let's assume the service requests for a JSON that's eventually illegal:
{"foo":1,###"bar":2}
In such case, the error reporting converter will produce the following dump to stdout:
Content type: application/json
Content length: -1
Content: {"foo":1,###"bar":2}
I'm not an expert in Log4j, and could not find an efficient way to get the output streams to redirect the input stream to. Here is the closest thing what I've found:
final class Log4jConversionThrowableConsumer
implements IConversionThrowableConsumer {
private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 512;
private final Logger logger;
private Log4jConversionThrowableConsumer(final Logger logger) {
this.logger = logger;
}
static IConversionThrowableConsumer getLog4jConversionThrowableConsumer(final Logger logger) {
return new Log4jConversionThrowableConsumer(logger);
}
#Override
public void accept(final MediaType contentType, final long contentLength, final InputStream inputStream, final Throwable ex) {
try {
final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(BUFFER_SIZE)
.append("Content type=")
.append(contentType)
.append("; Content length=")
.append(contentLength)
.append("; Input stream content=");
readInputStreamFirstChunk(builder, inputStream);
logger.error(builder.toString(), ex);
} catch ( final IOException ioex ) {
throw new RuntimeException(ioex);
}
}
private static void readInputStreamFirstChunk(final StringBuilder builder, final InputStream inputStream)
throws IOException {
final Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
final char[] buffer = new char[512];
final int read = reader.read(buffer);
if ( read >= 0 ) {
builder.append(buffer, 0, read);
}
}
}
Unfortunately, collecting the whole string may be expensive, so it only takes the very first 512 bytes. This may require callibrating the joined streams in the intermediate converter in order to "shift" the content "to the left" a bit.

Apache Util.copyStream: Stop Stream

Is it possible to stop the bytesTransferred stream for the Apache Util.copyStream function?
long bytesTransferred = Util.copyStream(inputStream, outputStream, 32768, CopyStreamEvent.UNKNOWN_STREAM_SIZE, new CopyStreamListener() {
#Override
public void bytesTransferred(CopyStreamEvent event) {
bytesTransferred(event.getTotalBytesTransferred(), event.getBytesTransferred(), event.getStreamSize());
}
#Override
public void bytesTransferred(long totalBytesTransferred, int bytesTransferred,
long streamSize) {
try {
if(true) {
log.info('Stopping');
return; //Cancel
} else {
log.info('Still going');
}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// this should not happen!
}
}
});
In this case, what will happen is that I keep getting a Stopping message in my logs. I also tried throwing a new RuntileException instead of returning, and again I get endless Stopping messages. How would I cancel the bytesTransfered in this case?

You could try wrapping the input stream, and overriding the read methods to check for a stop flag. If set, throw an IOException. Example class.
/**
* Wrapped input stream that can be cancelled.
*/
public class WrappedStoppableInputStream extends InputStream
{
private InputStream m_wrappedInputStream;
private boolean m_stop = false;
/**
* Constructor.
* #param inputStream original input stream
*/
public WrappedStoppableInputStream(InputStream inputStream)
{
m_wrappedInputStream = inputStream;
}
/**
* Call to stop reading stream.
*/
public void cancelTransfer()
{
m_stop = true;
}
#Override
public int read() throws IOException
{
if (m_stop)
{
throw new IOException("Stopping stream");
}
return m_wrappedInputStream.read();
}
#Override
public int read(byte[] b) throws IOException
{
if (m_stop)
{
throw new IOException("Stopping stream");
}
return m_wrappedInputStream.read(b);
}
#Override
public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException
{
if (m_stop)
{
throw new IOException("Stopping stream");
}
return m_wrappedInputStream.read(b, off, len);
}
}
I am assuming that the file copying is running inside a thread. So you wrap your input stream with WrappedStoppableInputStream, and pass that to your copy function, to be used instead of the original input stream.

Parquet Writer to buffer or byte stream

I have a java application that converts json messages to parquet format. Is there any parquet writer which writes to buffer or byte stream in java? Most of the examples, I have seen write to files.

TLDR; you will need to implement OutputFile, e.g. something along the line of:
import org.apache.parquet.io.OutputFile;
import org.apache.parquet.io.PositionOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ParquetBufferedWriter implements OutputFile {
private final BufferedOutputStream out;
public ParquetBufferedWriter(BufferedOutputStream out) {
this.out = out;
}
#Override
public PositionOutputStream create(long blockSizeHint) throws IOException {
return createPositionOutputstream();
}
private PositionOutputStream createPositionOutputstream() {
return new PositionOutputStream() {
#Override
public long getPos() throws IOException {
return 0;
}
#Override
public void write(int b) throws IOException {
out.write(b);
}
};
}
#Override
public PositionOutputStream createOrOverwrite(long blockSizeHint) throws IOException {
return createPositionOutputstream();
}
#Override
public boolean supportsBlockSize() {
return false;
}
#Override
public long defaultBlockSize() {
return 0;
}
}
And your writer would be something like:
ParquetBufferedWriter out = new ParquetBufferedWriter();
try (ParquetWriter<Record> writer = AvroParquetWriter.
<Record>builder(out)
.withRowGroupSize(DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE)
.withPageSize(DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE)
.withSchema(SCHEMA)
.build()) {
for (Record record : records) {
writer.write(record);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException(e);
}

I just also needed to write to a stream, so I completed the example given by naimdjon. The following works perfectly fine for me.
class ParquetBufferedWriter implements OutputFile {
private final BufferedOutputStream out;
public ParquetBufferedWriter(BufferedOutputStream out) {
this.out = out;
}
#Override
public PositionOutputStream create(long blockSizeHint) throws IOException {
return createPositionOutputstream();
}
private PositionOutputStream createPositionOutputstream() {
return new PositionOutputStream() {
int pos = 0;
#Override
public long getPos() throws IOException {
return pos;
}
#Override
public void flush() throws IOException {
out.flush();
};
#Override
public void close() throws IOException {
out.close();
};
#Override
public void write(int b) throws IOException {
out.write(b);
pos++;
}
#Override
public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
out.write(b, off, len);
pos += len;
}
};
}
#Override
public PositionOutputStream createOrOverwrite(long blockSizeHint) throws IOException {
return createPositionOutputstream();
}
#Override
public boolean supportsBlockSize() {
return false;
}
#Override
public long defaultBlockSize() {
return 0;
}
}

You need to write the data into temp file and then covert the data from file to input stream or buffer
something like this, first read the tempfile data
final InputStream targetStream = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(tmp1.getAbsoluteFile()));
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
String encoding = StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name();
IOUtils.copy(targetStream, writer, encoding);
System.out.println(writer);

InputStream to servletInputStream

I have this InputStream:
InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(myString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
How can I convert this to ServletInputStream?
I have tried:
ServletInputStream servletInputStream = (ServletInputStream) inputStream;
but do not work.
EDIT:
My method is this:
private static class LowerCaseRequest extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {
public LowerCaseRequest(final HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException, ServletException {
super(request);
}
#Override
public ServletInputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
ServletInputStream servletInputStream;
StringBuilder jb = new StringBuilder();
String line;
String toLowerCase = "";
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(super.getInputStream()));
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
toLowerCase = jb.append(line).toString().toLowerCase();
}
InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(toLowerCase.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
servletInputStream = (ServletInputStream) inputStream;
return servletInputStream;
}
}
I´m trying to convert all my request to lowercase.

My advice: don't create the ByteArrayInputStream, just use the byte array you got from the getBytes method already. This should be enough to create a ServletInputStream.
Most basic solution
Unfortunately, aksappy's answer only overrides the read method. While this may be enough in Servlet API 3.0 and below, in the later versions of Servlet API there are three more methods you have to implement.
Here is my implementation of the class, although with it becoming quite long (due to the new methods introduced in Servlet API 3.1), you might want to think about factoring it out into a nested or even top-level class.
final byte[] myBytes = myString.getBytes("UTF-8");
ServletInputStream servletInputStream = new ServletInputStream() {
private int lastIndexRetrieved = -1;
private ReadListener readListener = null;
#Override
public boolean isFinished() {
return (lastIndexRetrieved == myBytes.length-1);
}
#Override
public boolean isReady() {
// This implementation will never block
// We also never need to call the readListener from this method, as this method will never return false
return isFinished();
}
#Override
public void setReadListener(ReadListener readListener) {
this.readListener = readListener;
if (!isFinished()) {
try {
readListener.onDataAvailable();
} catch (IOException e) {
readListener.onError(e);
}
} else {
try {
readListener.onAllDataRead();
} catch (IOException e) {
readListener.onError(e);
}
}
}
#Override
public int read() throws IOException {
int i;
if (!isFinished()) {
i = myBytes[lastIndexRetrieved+1];
lastIndexRetrieved++;
if (isFinished() && (readListener != null)) {
try {
readListener.onAllDataRead();
} catch (IOException ex) {
readListener.onError(ex);
throw ex;
}
}
return i;
} else {
return -1;
}
}
};
Adding expected methods
Depending on your requirements, you may also want to override other methods. As romfret pointed out, it's advisable to override some methods, such as close and available. If you don't implement them, the stream will always report that there are 0 bytes available to be read, and the close method will do nothing to affect the state of the stream. You can probably get away without overriding skip, as the default implementation will just call read a number of times.
#Override
public int available() throws IOException {
return (myBytes.length-lastIndexRetrieved-1);
}
#Override
public void close() throws IOException {
lastIndexRetrieved = myBytes.length-1;
}
Writing a better close method
Unfortunately, due to the nature of an anonymous class, it's going to be difficult for you to write an effective close method because as long as one instance of the stream has not been garbage-collected by Java, it maintains a reference to the byte array, even if the stream has been closed.
However, if you factor out the class into a nested or top-level class (or even an anonymous class with a constructor which you call from the line in which it is defined), the myBytes can be a non-final field rather than a final local variable, and you can add a line like:
myBytes = null;
to your close method, which will allow Java to free memory taken up by the byte array.
Of course, this will require you to write a constructor, such as:
private byte[] myBytes;
public StringServletInputStream(String str) {
try {
myBytes = str.getBytes("UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException("JVM did not support UTF-8", e);
}
}
Mark and Reset
You may also want to override mark, markSupported and reset if you want to support mark/reset. I am not sure if they are ever actually called by your container though.
private int readLimit = -1;
private int markedPosition = -1;
#Override
public boolean markSupported() {
return true;
}
#Override
public synchronized void mark(int readLimit) {
this.readLimit = readLimit;
this.markedPosition = lastIndexRetrieved;
}
#Override
public synchronized void reset() throws IOException {
if (markedPosition == -1) {
throw new IOException("No mark found");
} else {
lastIndexRetrieved = markedPosition;
readLimit = -1;
}
}
// Replacement of earlier read method to cope with readLimit
#Override
public int read() throws IOException {
int i;
if (!isFinished()) {
i = myBytes[lastIndexRetrieved+1];
lastIndexRetrieved++;
if (isFinished() && (readListener != null)) {
try {
readListener.onAllDataRead();
} catch (IOException ex) {
readListener.onError(ex);
throw ex;
}
readLimit = -1;
}
if (readLimit != -1) {
if ((lastIndexRetrieved - markedPosition) > readLimit) {
// This part is actually not necessary in our implementation
// as we are not storing any data. However we need to respect
// the contract.
markedPosition = -1;
readLimit = -1;
}
}
return i;
} else {
return -1;
}
}

Try this code.
ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(myString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
ServletInputStream servletInputStream=new ServletInputStream(){
public int read() throws IOException {
return byteArrayInputStream.read();
}
}

You can only cast something like this:
ServletInputStream servletInputStream = (ServletInputStream) inputStream;
if the inputStream you are trying to cast is actually a ServletInputStream already. It will complain if it's some other implementation of InputStream. You can't cast an object to something it isn't.
In a Servlet container, you can get a ServletInputStream from a ServletRequest:
ServletInputStream servletInputStream = request.getInputStream();
So, what are you actually trying to do?
EDIT
I'm intrigued as to why you want to convert your request to lower-case - why not just make your servlet case-insensitive? In other words, your code to lower-case the request data can be copied into your servlet, then it can process it there... always look for the simplest solution!

Java - Capturing System.err.println or Capturing a PrintStream

Java Newbie question :
I need to capture the text being written to a printStream by a 3rd party component.
The PrintStream is defaulted to System.err, but can be changed to another PrintStream.
Looking through the docs, I couldn't find an easy way to direct the contents of a PrintStream to a string writer / buffer.
Can someone please assist?

PipedOutputStream pipeOut = new PipedOutputStream();
PipedInputStream pipeIn = new PipedInputStream(pipeOut);
System.setOut(new PrintStream(pipeOut));
// now read from pipeIn

import java.io.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream("errors.txt");
} catch(IOException ioe) {
System.err.println("redirection not possible: "+ioe);
System.exit(-1);
}
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(fos);
System.setErr(ps);
System.err.println("goes into file");
}
}

You can create a PrintStream around any other OutputStream.
The simplest way to create one that goes to a buffer in memory would be:
PrintStream p = new PrintStream( new ByteArrayOutputStream() )
Then you could read and reset the contents of the byte array at whatever points you like.
Another possibility would be to use pipes.
InputStream third_party_output = new PipedInputStream();
PrintStream p = new PrintStream( new PipedOutputStream( third_party_output ) );
Then you could read from the third_party_output stream to get the text written by the library.

Are you looking for something like this?
OutputStream redirect = System.err;
PrintStream myPrintStream = new PrintStream(redirect);
myPrintStream.println("hello redirect");
If you can pass myPrintStream to the 3rd party application, you can redirect it anywhere you want.

I use the following class to log System.out and System.err to a set of rotating files (where xxx-001.log is the most recent). It contains a few call to utility methods, which you will need to implement before it will compile - they should be self-explanatory.
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
public class LoggerOutputStream
extends OutputStream
{
// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE PROPERTIES
// *****************************************************************************
private FileOutputStream log=null; // the base output stream
private String fnmBase,fnmExt; // filename base, file extension
private int fnmCount,fnmLast; // count for filename index, last filename used
private int logSize,totWritten; // max log size, current number of bytes written
// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE CONSTRUCTORS/INIT/CLOSE/FINALIZE
// *****************************************************************************
public LoggerOutputStream(String baseFilename) throws IOException {
this(baseFilename,".log",2,1024000);
}
public LoggerOutputStream(String baseFilename, String extension) throws IOException {
this(baseFilename,extension,2,1024000);
}
public LoggerOutputStream(String baseFilename, String extension, int numberOfFiles, int maxFileSize) throws IOException {
fnmBase=baseFilename;
if(Character.isLetterOrDigit(fnmBase.charAt(fnmBase.length()-1))) { fnmBase=(fnmBase+"-"); }
fnmExt=extension;
if(!fnmExt.startsWith(".")) { fnmExt=('.'+fnmExt); }
fnmCount=numberOfFiles;
logSize=maxFileSize;
if(fnmCount>MAXLOGS) { fnmCount=MAXLOGS; }
fnmLast=0;
for(int xa=1; xa<=MAXLOGS; xa++) {
if(!new File(constructFilename(xa)).exists()) {
while((--xa)>fnmCount) { IoUtil.deleteFile(constructFilename(xa)); }
fnmLast=xa;
break;
}
}
log=null;
openFile(false);
if(numberOfFiles>MAXLOGS) { System.out.println("** Log File Count Limited To "+MAXLOGS); }
}
public void close() throws IOException {
close(false);
}
private void openFile(boolean ovrflw) throws IOException {
close(true);
if (fnmLast< fnmCount) { fnmLast++; }
else if(fnmLast==fnmCount) { IoUtil.deleteFile(constructFilename(fnmCount)); }
for(int xa=fnmLast; xa>0; xa--) { IoUtil.renameFile(constructFilename(xa-1),constructFilename(xa)); }
log=new FileOutputStream(constructFilename(1));
totWritten=0;
}
private String constructFilename(int index) {
return constructFilename(fnmBase,index,fnmExt);
}
private synchronized void close(boolean ovrflw) throws IOException {
if(log!=null) {
log.flush();
log.close();
log=null;
}
}
// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE METHODS - ACCESSORS
// *****************************************************************************
public String getFilename() {
return constructFilename(1);
}
public String getFilename(int idx) {
return constructFilename(idx);
}
public synchronized void cycleLogFile() throws IOException {
openFile(true);
}
// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE METHODS
// *****************************************************************************
public synchronized void flush() throws IOException {
if(log!=null) {
log.flush();
}
}
public synchronized void write(int val) throws IOException {
if(log!=null) {
log.write(val);
totWritten++;
if(val=='\n') {
if(totWritten>logSize) { openFile(true); }
else { log.flush(); }
}
}
}
public synchronized void write(byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
if(log!=null) {
log.write(bytes);
totWritten+=bytes.length;
if(bytes.length>0 && bytes[bytes.length-1]=='\n') {
if(totWritten>logSize) { openFile(true); }
else { log.flush(); }
}
}
}
public synchronized void write(byte[] bytes, int str, int len) throws IOException {
if(log!=null) {
log.write(bytes,str,len);
totWritten+=len;
if(bytes.length>(str+len-1) && bytes[str+len-1]=='\n') {
if(totWritten>logSize) { openFile(true); }
else { log.flush(); }
}
}
}
// *****************************************************************************
// STATIC PROPERTIES
// *****************************************************************************
static public final int MAXLOGS=999; // maximum log files allowed
// *****************************************************************************
// STATIC METHODS
// *****************************************************************************
static public String constructFilename(String bas, int idx, String ext) {
if(!bas.endsWith("-") && !bas.endsWith("_") && !bas.endsWith(".")) { bas=(bas+"-"); }
if(!ext.startsWith(".") ) { ext=('.'+ext); }
return (bas+TextUtil.raZeros(idx,3)+ext);
}
} /* END PUBLIC CLASS */