RFR [9] Add blocking bulk read to java.io.InputStream

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Apr 23 16:21:46 UTC 2015


On 23 Apr 2015, at 16:58, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki at zusammenkunft.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would use the already established name readFully(byte[]) and readFully(byte[],int,int) to be consistent with DataInputStream.

I purposefully stayed away from the name ‘readFully' as the spec for DataInputStream.readFully and the proposed InputStream.readBytes differs. The latter does not throw EOFException.

So, currently, on the table we have:
  readBytes
  readAllBytes
  readNBytes ( thanks Alan )

-Chris.

> Gruss
> Bernd




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