下面是一个优化的版本，尽量避免复制数据字节:

private static byte[] loadStream (InputStream stream) throws IOException {
   int available = stream.available();
   int expectedSize = available > 0 ? available : -1;
   return loadStream(stream, expectedSize);
}

private static byte[] loadStream (InputStream stream, int expectedSize) throws IOException {
   int basicBufferSize = 0x4000;
   int initialBufferSize = (expectedSize >= 0) ? expectedSize : basicBufferSize;
   byte[] buf = new byte[initialBufferSize];
   int pos = 0;
   while (true) {
      if (pos == buf.length) {
         int readAhead = -1;
         if (pos == expectedSize) {
            readAhead = stream.read();       // test whether EOF is at expectedSize
            if (readAhead == -1) {
               return buf;
            }
         }
         int newBufferSize = Math.max(2 * buf.length, basicBufferSize);
         buf = Arrays.copyOf(buf, newBufferSize);
         if (readAhead != -1) {
            buf[pos++] = (byte)readAhead;
         }
      }
      int len = stream.read(buf, pos, buf.length - pos);
      if (len < 0) {
         return Arrays.copyOf(buf, pos);
      }
      pos += len;
   }
}

如果你碰巧使用谷歌Guava，它将像使用ByteStreams一样简单:

byte[] bytes = ByteStreams.toByteArray(inputStream);

您需要从InputStream中读取每个字节，并将其写入ByteArrayOutputStream。

然后你可以通过调用toByteArray()来检索底层的字节数组:

InputStream is = ...
ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

int nRead;
byte[] data = new byte[16384];

while ((nRead = is.read(data, 0, data.length)) != -1) {
  buffer.write(data, 0, nRead);
}

return buffer.toByteArray();

你可以试试仙人掌:

byte[] array = new BytesOf(stream).bytes();

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
while (true) {
    int r = in.read(buffer);
    if (r == -1) break;
    out.write(buffer, 0, r);
}

byte[] ret = out.toByteArray();

如果你使用ByteArrayOutputStream，你会做一个额外的拷贝。如果你在开始读取流之前知道它的长度(例如，InputStream实际上是FileInputStream，你可以在文件上调用file.length()，或者InputStream是一个zipfile条目InputStream，你可以调用zipEntry.length())，那么直接写入byte[]数组会更好——它使用一半的内存，并节省时间。

// Read the file contents into a byte[] array
byte[] buf = new byte[inputStreamLength];
int bytesRead = Math.max(0, inputStream.read(buf));

// If needed: for safety, truncate the array if the file may somehow get
// truncated during the read operation
byte[] contents = bytesRead == inputStreamLength ? buf
                  : Arrays.copyOf(buf, bytesRead);

注意:上面的最后一行处理的是在读取流时被截断的文件，如果你需要处理这种可能性，但是如果在读取流时文件变长了，byte[]数组中的内容将不会被延长以包括新的文件内容，数组将简单地被截断为旧的长度inputStreamLength。