InputStream available() in Java

available(): This method is available in the java.io.InputStream class of Java.

Syntax:

int java.io.InputStream.available() throws IOException

This method returns an estimate of the number of bytes that can be read (or skipped over) from this input stream without blocking, which may be 0, or 0 when the end of the stream is detected.

The reader might be on the same thread or another thread. A single read or skip of this many bytes will not block but may read or skip fewer bytes.

Note:

The available method of InputStream always returns 0.

Parameters: NA

Returns: an estimate of the number of bytes that can be read (or skipped over)  from this input stream without blocking or 0 when it reaches the end of the input stream.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs.

Approach 1: When no exception

Java

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class InputStreamavailable {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        File file = new File("D:\\hello.txt");
        InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);

        try {
            System.out.println(inputStream.available());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("IOException occurs");
        }
        inputStream.close();
    }
}

Output:

0

Approach 2: IOException 

Java

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class InputStreamavailable {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        File file = new File("D:\\hello.txt");
        InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);

        inputStream.close();
        try {
            System.out.println(inputStream.available());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("IOException occurs");
        }

    }
}

Output:

IOException occurs

Some other methods of InputStream

close(): This method closes this input stream and releases any system resources associated with the stream.

mark(int):  This method marks the current position in this input stream.

markSupported(): This method tests if this input stream supports the mark and reset methods.

InputStream.nullInputStream(): This method returns a new InputStream that reads no bytes. The returned stream is initially open.

read(): This method reads the next byte of data from the input stream. The value byte is returned as an int in the range 0 to 255.

read(byte[]): This method reads some number of bytes from the input stream and stores them into the buffer array b.

read(byte[], int, int): his method reads up to len bytes of data from the input stream into an array of bytes.

readAllBytes(): This method reads all remaining bytes from the input stream.

readNBytes(int): This method reads up to a specified number of bytes from the input stream.

readNBytes(byte[], int, int): This method reads the requested number of bytes from the input stream into the given byte array.

reset(): This method repositions this stream to the position at the time the mark method was last called on this input stream.

skip(long):  This method skips over and discards n bytes of data from this input stream.

skipNBytes(long): This method skips over and discards exactly n bytes of data from this input stream.

transferTo(OutputStream): This method reads all bytes from this input stream and writes the bytes to the given output stream in the order that they are read.