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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org