Java – How to Convert StringReader to String

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I'm trying to convert my StringReader back to a regular String, as shown:

String string = reader.toString();

But when I try to read this string out, like this:

System.out.println("string: "+string);

All I get is a pointer value, like this:

java.io.StringReader@2c552c55

Am I doing something wrong in reading the string back?

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

String string = IOUtils.toString(reader);

ByteArrayInputStream also does the trick:

InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream( myString.getBytes( charset ) );

Then convert to reader:

InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is);