Re: reading bytes with BufferedReader?
EJP wrote:
Tom Forsmo wrote:
An example is using a PushbackReader and when you find any bytes,
you push it back and open a new InputStream from the pushback stream
Well you can't even do that for a start, you can't put an InputStream
on top of a Reader.
No, but you can use the InputStream the Reader is based. Ok, its not
opening up a new InputStream, but you are still using the underlying
stream directly.
.... but you still won't get any data pushed back into the PushbackReader!
I went back to the paragraph in the book I thought I read this, but I
must have misread it. I apologise for the confusion on that claim.
What you can do, though, is to use a PushbackInputStream. Your read some
bytes, give it to a reader which parses it, when the reader reaches the
binary data, it returns with a value stating how many bytes where
consumed by the reader. What was not consumed is pushed back into the
stream and you open up e.g. a DataInputStream to read the binary data.
When the DataInputStream is finished you could potentially return and
give control to the reader again, this way going back and forth between
text and binary. Its a bit complicated and not as clean. It would be
easier and cleaner to just use a complete binary or text based protocol
instead.
tom
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