Re: What replaces StringBufferInputStream
Dale King wrote:
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In this case the reason Patricia needs it is a poorly designed class.
Since that class expects to read textual data it should support Readers.
It could in addition support InputStream (although I would mark that
support as deprecated because users should not be using it).
I'm not so sure that classes such as Process should supply Reader/Writer
interfaces themselves. Process is providing access to byte stream data.
If it does it through Reader and Writer it would have to be told the
encoding (even if it also had a option for going with a default encoding).
Some applications might want direct, unconverted, byte stream access to
exactly what the job said. That might be important, for example, for debug.
Given the general layering of I/O interfaces, I think it may be better
to just provide the Stream interfaces, and expect the caller to build
any Reader or Writer, passing the encoding information to the constructor.
ReaderInputStream and WriterOutputStream would have solved my problem
completely.
Patricia
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