streaming large strings

From: Stephen Ramsay (sramsay_at_uga.edu)
Date: 02/07/05

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    Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:44:37 GMT

    I'm working on an application that needs to move very large strings
    around (XML files, several megabytes in length). I can't do anything
    about the fact they're available to my program as Strings. It's just
    the way the API I'm using works.

    There are a couple of things I need to do with those strings: pass them
    to a SAXParser (which expects an InputStream), and write them to files.
    Problem is, no matter what I to do, the file ends up truncated (pretty
    much always in the same location, toward the end of the file).

    I've tried lots of things, including passing the string to a
    StringReader and buffering it. I've also tried things like:

    byte[] bytes = xmlDoc.getBytes();
    InputStream bytestream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);

    and then writing it out to a Buffered writer with:

    while ((nextChar = xmlDoc.read()) != -1)

    Pretty much everything I do results in a truncated file.

    Can anyone suggest a good general approach to dealing with large strings
    (that need to turn into streams for writing or other reasons)?

    Thanks,

    Steve 

    -- 
Stephen Ramsay
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