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OpenCSV Avoid using FileWriter and return InputStream

I am using OpenCsv and the new CSVWriter() method takes a Writer as an argument.

What I am trying to achieve is that to avoid writing to the file system and instead return an InputStream. I am not sure how to go about this. Not very familiar with Streams also I am using JAVA 7.

Is it possible that I could make the writeValues method return an InputStream and avoid writing the output on file system.

This is my working implementation:

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This is what I want to achieve. How to Convert the above method to avoid using a FileWriter.

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Answer

Write to an OutpuStreamWriter itself writing to a ByteArrayOutputStream, and in the end, you’ll have a byte array in memory (by calling getBytes() on the ByteArrayOutputStream).

You can then read from this byte array by opening a ByteArrayInputStream on the byte array.

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