Handling response body types can be accomplished using HttpResponse.BodyHandler. The API comes with several implementations of this interface (BodyHandler) in the HttpResponse.BodyHandlers class, as follows:

• BodyHandlers.ofByteArray()
• BodyHandlers.ofFile()
• BodyHandlers.ofString()
• BodyHandlers.ofInputStream()
• BodyHandlers.ofLines()

Considering the following request, let's look at several solutions for handling the response body:

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
  .uri(URI.create("https://reqres.in/api/users/2"))
  .build();

We'll look at how to handle different types of response bodies in the following sections.