public interface

SharedInputStream

com.google.code.javax.mail.internet.SharedInputStream
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

An InputStream that is backed by data that can be shared by multiple readers may implement this interface. This allows users of such an InputStream to determine the current position in the InputStream, and to create new InputStreams representing a subset of the data in the original InputStream. The new InputStream will access the same underlying data as the original, without copying the data.

Note that implementations of this interface must ensure that the close method does not close any underlying stream that might be shared by multiple instances of SharedInputStream until all shared instances have been closed.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract long getPosition()
Return the current position in the InputStream, as an offset from the beginning of the InputStream.
abstract InputStream newStream(long start, long end)
Return a new InputStream representing a subset of the data from this InputStream, starting at start (inclusive) up to end (exclusive).

Public Methods

public abstract long getPosition ()

Return the current position in the InputStream, as an offset from the beginning of the InputStream.

Returns
  • the current position

public abstract InputStream newStream (long start, long end)

Return a new InputStream representing a subset of the data from this InputStream, starting at start (inclusive) up to end (exclusive). start must be non-negative. If end is -1, the new stream ends at the same place as this stream. The returned InputStream will also implement the SharedInputStream interface.

Parameters
start The starting position
end The ending position + 1
Returns
  • the new stream