question: private static HttpEntity toHttpEntity ( Object value , String mimetype , String charset ) throws IOException { if ( value instanceof HttpEntity ) return ( HttpEntity ) value ; ContentType ct = HTTPEngine . toContentType ( mimetype , charset ) ; try { if ( value instanceof TemporaryStream ) { if ( ct != null ) return new TemporaryStreamHttpEntity ( ( TemporaryStream ) value , ct ) ; return new TemporaryStreamHttpEntity ( ( TemporaryStream ) value , null ) ; } else if ( value instanceof InputStream ) { if ( ct != null ) return new ByteArrayEntity ( IOUtil . toBytes ( ( InputStream ) value ) , ct ) ; return new ByteArrayEntity ( IOUtil . toBytes ( ( InputStream ) value ) ) ; } else if ( Decision . isCastableToBinary ( value , false ) ) { if ( ct != null ) return new ByteArrayEntity ( Caster . toBinary ( value ) , ct ) ; return new ByteArrayEntity ( Caster . toBinary ( value ) ) ; } else { boolean wasNull = false ; if ( ct == null ) { wasNull = true ; ct = ContentType . APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM ; } String str = Caster . toString ( value ) ; if ( str . equals ( "<empty>" ) ) { return new EmptyHttpEntity ( ct ) ; } if ( wasNull && ! StringUtil . isEmpty ( charset , true ) ) return new StringEntity ( str , charset . trim ( ) ) ; else return new StringEntity ( str , ct ) ; } } catch ( Exception e ) { throw ExceptionUtil . toIOException ( e ) ; } }
target:  convert input to  HTTP Entity