Re: Stream, Reader and text vs binary
Thomas Hawtin wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Thomas Hawtin wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
4) use DataInputStream/DataOutputStream
writeUTF/readUTF only allows strings of up to 65535 bytes of modified
UTF-8. (If your String was all NUL characters, then it could be at
most 65535/3 characters long).
I can usually live with lines smaller than that. Maybe the original
poster can too.
In this day and age, I'd find it very surprising to come across such a
limitation. Several years I once became very unpopular because an
implementation of an API I was using couldn't cope with strings of more
than a certain length.
You did notice that I am talking about lines - not text fragments ?
5) have both InputStream/OutputStream and BufferedReader/PrintWriter
and
a protocol that enables both ends to switch between them
You would have to be surprisingly careful getting that to work. The
Readers/Writers will probably over read/under write, so switching
will be difficult.
I am not so worried about the output - flush should do that.
So long as you don't mind not inconsiderable inefficiency. And don't
forget to flush every time.
Only when switching mode.
But maybe it would be wise on the input side to only use
InputStreamReader and not BufferedReader.
Still wont work consistently.
Why ?
Arne
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