Re: [IO] CallbackOutputStream (sort-of a proposal)

[Ryan Hoegg <rh...@isisnetworks.net>]

FWIW, this will be useful to me in my work on an alternate digest format 
for Codec: SHA.  If any sandbox committer finds the time, could you put 
this somewhere in the sandbox?

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Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
http://www.isisnetworks.net

Christopher (siege) OBrien wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've been working on a set of classes which might have a place within
>commons (in io, probably). I'm just looking for feedback on the idea
>before I write more than the simple implementation I've got thus far.
>
>I've got what looks like an output stream, created with a fixed-size
>internal buffer, and a slot for a listener. The listener implements an
>interface I'm calling ByteSequenceProcessor, and has a  public method
>process(ByteSequence):void. ByteSequence is very similar to
>CharSequence, except it's an interface and (you guessed it) based on
>bytes.
>
>The point behind this mess is to allow input to be passed into the
>stream, and the stream will automatically trigger the sequence processor
>when necessary, passing ByteSequences of the correct size. It eliminates
>the necessity for duplicate chunking code.
>
>I wrote this as part of an MD5 implementation for codec (hopefully for
>codec) a little while ago. I'd appreciate any feedback on the idea and
>its (possible lack of) merit.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>


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