Do I need to close the input stream manually after using IOUtils.toString(input) of commons-io?
apache-commons-io, io, java
Solution
The javadoc says:
Wherever possible, the methods in this class do not flush or close the stream. This is to avoid making non-portable assumptions about the streams' origin and further use. Thus the caller is still responsible for closing streams after use.
Problem
Commons-IO has an `IOUtils.toString(inputStream)` method, which can read all content from an input stream: ``` InputStream input = getInputStream(); String content = IOUtils.toString(input); ``` My question is shall I close the input stream manually after using it? I thought IOUtils may close it since it has read all the content, but I can't find that in the source code.