nputStream & String互转

convertion between InputStream & String 1. String --> InputStream

InputStream convertToInputStream(String str)
{
        ByteArrayInputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes());
        return is;
}

2. InputStream --> String
    
String convertToString(InputStream is)
{
      
       BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        String line = "";
        while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)
        {
             buffer.append(line);
         }
         return buffer.toString();
           
}

When I do the socket programming, I always need to deal with inputstream and string, above are the basic ways to so that, but I am not sure if there are any simpler ways to do that...
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  public static String string2Blob(String str) {
    StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
    for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
      buffer.append(Integer.toHexString( (int) str.charAt(i)));
    }
    return buffer.toString();
  }

  public static String blob2String(String blob) {
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    for (int i = 0; i < blob.length() - 1; i += 2) {
      int iByte = Integer.parseInt(blob.substring(i, i + 2), 16);
      sb.append( (char) iByte);
    }
    return sb.toString();
  }