AsynchronousFileChannel.transferTo?

[Remi Forax]

I've written something like this.
An asynchronous copy that returns a Future.

I can provide the code if you want.

Rémi


Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

>On 02/12/2011 19:45, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just made the fairly rookie error of assuming that 
>> AsynchronousFileChannel would have an analagous method to 
>> FileChannel.transferTo, but unfortunately this appears not to be the case.
>>
>> Is this simply due to a lack of time, or is there some reason why it 
>> cannot be incorporated? I have lots of disk to network transfers to 
>> perform, and I'd rather not spawn a thread for each, but I'd equally 
>> rather not copy the data into a buffer and straight back out again; 
>> I'd prefer for the transfer to be straight DMA, with a callback 
>> letting me know it happened.
>>
>> Are there any plans for this to be supported at any point in the 
>> future? Or am I being completely retarded and simply missing the 
>> already present functionality? I've searched the obvious places for 
>> information but so far no luck, and no discussion of it I could find 
>> on the mailing lists.
>>
>> Any light you can shed would be appreciated...
>>
>> Cheers,
>Yes, just lack of time and clearly desirable to be have an asynchronous 
>transferTo method. The interesting question is whether the target 
>channel (or source in the case of a transferFrom) is a synchronous or 
>asynchronous socket channel. For now I'm not aware of anyone working on 
>adding this but clearly something desirable to add at some point.
>
>-Alan
>
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