Read input stream twice

You can use org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copy to copy the contents of the InputStream to a byte array, and then repeatedly read from the byte array using a ByteArrayInputStream. E.g.:

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copy(in, baos);
byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();

// either
while (needToReadAgain) {
    ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
    yourReadMethodHere(bais);
}

// or
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
while (needToReadAgain) {
    bais.reset();
    yourReadMethodHere(bais);
}

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