android string inputstream,Android / Java - Converting DataInputStream into String

I currently have a connection established to some middleware, through which I send SQL queries to a database.

I'm having some trouble with converting the DataInputStream to a useable format (Whether or not that is a String). I looked at another StackOverflow question, however this did not resolve my problem since using

in.readLine();

is 'deprecated', whatever that means. I need to be able to read the response from my middleware.

private class NetworkTask extends AsyncTask

{

protected Integer doInBackground(String... params)

{

Message message = networkHandler.obtainMessage();

String ip = "example ip";

int port = 1234;

try

{

InetAddress serverAddr = InetAddress.getByName(ip);

Log.d("EventBooker", "C: Connecting...");

Socket socket = new Socket(serverAddr, port);

DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(socket.getInputStream());

try

{

Log.d("EventBooker", "C: Connected. Sending command.");

PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream())), true);

out.println(params[0]);

networkHandler.sendMessage(message);

Log.d("EventBooker", "C: Sent.");

}

catch (Exception e)

{

Log.e("EventBooker", "S: Error", e);

}

Log.d("EventBooker", "C: Reading...");

Log.d("EventBooker", "C: Response read, closing.");

socket.close();

Log.d("Eventbooker", "C: Closed.");

}

catch (Exception e)

{

Log.e("EventBooker", "C: Error", e);

}

return 1;

}

}