org.apache.http.impl.io
Class ContentLengthInputStream

java.lang.Object
  extended byjava.io.InputStream
      extended byorg.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream

public class ContentLengthInputStream
extends java.io.InputStream

Stream that cuts off after a specified number of bytes. Note that this class NEVER closes the underlying stream, even when close gets called. Instead, it will read until the "end" of its chunking on close, which allows for the seamless execution of subsequent HTTP 1.1 requests, while not requiring the client to remember to read the entire contents of the response.

Implementation note: Choices abound. One approach would pass through the InputStream.mark(int) and InputStream.reset() calls to the underlying stream. That's tricky, though, because you then have to start duplicating the work of keeping track of how much a reset rewinds. Further, you have to watch out for the "readLimit", and since the semantics for the readLimit leave room for differing implementations, you might get into a lot of trouble.

Alternatively, you could make this class extend BufferedInputStream and then use the protected members of that class to avoid duplicated effort. That solution has the side effect of adding yet another possible layer of buffering.

Then, there is the simple choice, which this takes - simply don't support InputStream.mark(int) and InputStream.reset(). That choice has the added benefit of keeping this class very simple.

Since:
4.0
Author:
Ortwin Glueck, Eric Johnson, Mike Bowler

Constructor Summary
ContentLengthInputStream(HttpDataReceiver in, long contentLength)
          Creates a new length limited stream
 
Method Summary
 void close()
          Reads until the end of the known length of content.
 int read()
          Read the next byte from the stream
 int read(byte[] b)
          Read more bytes from the stream.
 int read(byte[] b, int off, int len)
          Does standard InputStream.read(byte[], int, int) behavior, but also notifies the watcher when the contents have been consumed.
 long skip(long n)
          Skips and discards a number of bytes from the input stream.
 
Methods inherited from class java.io.InputStream
available, mark, markSupported, reset
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

ContentLengthInputStream

public ContentLengthInputStream(HttpDataReceiver in,
                                long contentLength)
Creates a new length limited stream

Parameters:
in - The stream to wrap
contentLength - The maximum number of bytes that can be read from the stream. Subsequent read operations will return -1.
Method Detail

close

public void close()
           throws java.io.IOException

Reads until the end of the known length of content.

Does not close the underlying socket input, but instead leaves it primed to parse the next response.

Throws:
java.io.IOException - If an IO problem occurs.

read

public int read()
         throws java.io.IOException
Read the next byte from the stream

Returns:
The next byte or -1 if the end of stream has been reached.
Throws:
java.io.IOException - If an IO problem occurs
See Also:
InputStream.read()

read

public int read(byte[] b,
                int off,
                int len)
         throws java.io.IOException
Does standard InputStream.read(byte[], int, int) behavior, but also notifies the watcher when the contents have been consumed.

Parameters:
b - The byte array to fill.
off - Start filling at this position.
len - The number of bytes to attempt to read.
Returns:
The number of bytes read, or -1 if the end of content has been reached.
Throws:
java.io.IOException - Should an error occur on the wrapped stream.

read

public int read(byte[] b)
         throws java.io.IOException
Read more bytes from the stream.

Parameters:
b - The byte array to put the new data in.
Returns:
The number of bytes read into the buffer.
Throws:
java.io.IOException - If an IO problem occurs
See Also:
InputStream.read(byte[])

skip

public long skip(long n)
          throws java.io.IOException
Skips and discards a number of bytes from the input stream.

Parameters:
n - The number of bytes to skip.
Returns:
The actual number of bytes skipped. <= 0 if no bytes are skipped.
Throws:
java.io.IOException - If an error occurs while skipping bytes.
See Also:
InputStream.skip(long)


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