Hi Oliver,

On 29 January 2014 20:25, Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> wrote:
> 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].

Ok, great. I'll tidy up the code and add it to an issue for further
feedback from the IO crowd.

Duncan


> Oliver
>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Duncan
>>
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