Input and Output Stream Pipe in Java

Question

Does anyone have any good suggestions for creating a Pipe object in Java which is both an InputStream and and OutputStream since Java does not have multiple inherit

Answer 1

It seems the point of this question is being missed. If I understand you correctly, you want an object that functions like an InputStream in one thread, and an OutputStream in another to create a means of communicating between the two threads.

Perhaps one answer is to use composition instead of inheritance (which is recommended practice anyway). Create a Pipe which contains a PipedInputStream and a PipedOutputStream connected to each other, with getInputStream() and getOutputStream() methods.

You can't directly pass the Pipe object to something needing a stream, but you can pass the return value of it's get methods to do it.

Does that work for you?