On 2018-04-22, Gary Gregory wrote: > We should at the very least document all of this carefully.
commons-io's IOUtils already quite clearly states it is using read and not using skip at all. > My gut reaction is that an API called skip should call skip internally. > Doing anything else clever as you point out has performance implications > and might violate the principle of least surprise. Unfortunately I don't see any clean way to use skip at all. > We could consider creating a Skipper interface that can be implemented by > with Skip and a SkipRead implementations. Then all of the code that used to > call skip would be parameterized. But this might be too framework-y for > [io], or [compress] Just grep for IOUtils.skip through the compress code base, it is used all over the place. :-) Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
