I have an android client that communicates with the server via REST-ful endpoints and JSON. Because of this, I have the need to retrieve the full server response prior to converting it into a Hash. I have this code in place to do that (found on the internet someplace):

private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    String line = null;
    try {
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        try {
            is.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

The code works for the most part, however I am seeing reports of crashes in the field from clients with an OutOfMemory exception on the line:

    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

The full stack trace is:

java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground()
    at android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:200)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerSetException(FutureTask.java:273)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:124)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:307)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1068)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:561)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1102)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
    at java.lang.String.(String.java:468)
    at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.toString(AbstractStringBuilder.java:659)
    at java.lang.StringBuilder.toString(StringBuilder.java:664)
    at java.io.B
java android json out-of-memory
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