Hi Duncan, Am 28.01.2014 22:18, schrieb Duncan Jones: > Hi all, > > For a project of mine I developed a class named TrailerInputStream, > which reads from an InputStream whilst retaining a buffer of N bytes > (the trailer), Once the stream has been exhausted, the final N bytes > are obtained by calling the getTrailer() method. > > I found it helpful for reading structured data in which the main > contents of the stream are processed differently to the trailer at the > end. > > Is there a place for something like this in IO? I can imagine a > symmetric class called HeaderInputStream as well. > > Current code is at > https://github.com/RNCryptor/JNCryptor/blob/streaming/src/main/java/org/cryptonode/jncryptor/TrailerInputStream.java. > It's not yet in a fit state for submission, but isn't far away in > terms of comment quality and unit tests.
looks useful. I once have written something similar as a contribution to Tika for extracting ID3 tags from an MP3 file. So I think, this would fit into [io]. Oliver > > Kind regards, > > Duncan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
