[jira] [Commented] (LANG-993) Add zero copy write methods to StrBuilder

["Benedikt Ritter (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benedikt Ritter commented on LANG-993:
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Hello Mikhail,

how about just adding:

{code:java}
public void writeTo(Appendable appendable) {
   appendable.append(CharBuffer.wrap(buffer));
}
{code}

> Add zero copy write methods to StrBuilder
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-993
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-993
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: lang.text.*
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.1
>            Reporter: Mikhail Mazursky
>             Fix For: Review Patch, Discussion
>
>         Attachments: LANG-993.patch
>
>
> Currently I have the following usecase:
> {code}
> StrBuilder builder = new StrBuilder();
> // add lots of stuff to builder
> // in multiple invocations in several classes
> // writer cannot be used directly
> builder.append(...);
> Writer writer = ....;
> CharStreams.copy(builder.asReader(), writer);
> {code}
> [CharStreams|https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/guava/src/com/google/common/io/CharStreams.java#177] is a class from Guava lib that copies data between reader and writer using temporary buffer.
> There is a problem with such approach - two additional copies are performed:
> 1) data is copied from the StrBuilder in chunks into temporary buffer (CharBuffer)
> 2) Writer.append(CharSequence) is called that is usually implemented as write(CharSequence.toString()) - i.e. it makes another copy of data and allocates an additional String object.
> I want to avoid those copies by writing the internal buffer of the StrBuilder directly to the writer. Also it is potentially more efficient because it performs one I/O call instead of many.
> So I propose to add the following methods:
> {code}
>     public void writeTo(Writer writer) throws IOException {
>         writer.write(buffer, 0, size);
>     }
>     public void writeTo(StringBuilder builder) {
>         builder.append(buffer, 0, size);
>     }
>     public void writeTo(StringBuffer buffer) {
>         buffer.append(this.buffer, 0, size);
>     }
> {code}
> If there is interest I will provide patch (with JavaDocs and tests).



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