gross scala

scala> implicit class InputStreamAsString(is: InputStream) {
     | def asString = {
     | val buff = new Array[Byte](256)
     | new String(Iterator.continually({ val c = is.read(buff); buff.take(c)}).takeWhile(_.size>0).flatten.toArray)
     | }
     | }
defined class InputStreamAsString

scala> var s = new ByteArrayInputStream("asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf".getBytes("UTF-8"))
s: java.io.ByteArrayInputStream = java.io.ByteArrayInputStream@72c454a

scala> s.asString
res32: String = asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf