Re: What replaces StringBufferInputStream

"M.J. Dance" <mjdance@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

That seems to be the problem with this input stream <-> reader (and
output stream <-> writer, for that matter) dichotomy. Every(?) reader
has an uderlying input stream which, I imagine, wouldn't be a problem
to obtain.

Except, e.g., StringReader.

If you are communicating between processes, or even computers, then at
some point you'll represent your data as the lowest common
denominator: bytes, but working inside a single program, you can start
out with characters and keep it that way.

There is no way to meaningfully convert a generic Writer to an
OutputStream, and it's an implementation detail whether there is an
underlying OutputStream for a given Writer, so the Writer interface
can't meaningfully expose a method for giving out an OutputStream.

On the opposite end, you shouldn't blindly convert an InputStream
to a Reader without knowing that the bytes do represent characters
in the encoding you have chosen.

/L
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