Updating existing JDK code to use InputStream.transferTo()

[Pavel Rappo]

>>> The other reason to have read that returns 0 is if the underlying channel is in non-blocking mode.
>>> A read on an InputStream created by Channels.newInputStream on a SelectableChannel may return 0
>>> and the code will go in a loop until the SelectableChannel can read something.
>>> while(read() > 0) avoid that issue.
>> It doesn't seem possible as far as I can see. We have 2 methods in
>> java.nio.channels.Channels:
>> 
>>    newInputStream(java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel)
>>    newInputStream(java.nio.channels.AsynchronousByteChannel)
>> 
>> Neither ReadableByteChannel nor AsynchronousByteChannel is SelectableChannel.
> 
> SocketChannel is a subtype of both ReadableByteChannel and SelectableChannel.

Yes, you're right.

>> Sorry, I might be missing something. Anyway, it would be a misbehaving
>> InputStream as it doesn't conform to the spec.
> 
> if the read is non-blocking, it can read 0 byte which is conform to the InputStream.read spec,
> or am i missing something ?

* <p> If <code>len</code> is zero, then no bytes are read and
* <code>0</code> is returned; otherwise, there is an attempt to read at
* least one byte. If no byte is available because the stream is at end of
* file, the value <code>-1</code> is returned; otherwise, at least one
* byte is read and stored into <code>b</code>.

So as far as I can see, returning 0 as a number of bytes read is not an option,
unless len == 0