BufferedReader for large ByteBuffer?

Question

Is there a way to read a ByteBuffer with a BufferedReader without having to turn it into a String first? I want to read through a fairly large ByteBuffer as lines of text an

Answer 1

You can use NIO, but there's no real need here. As Jon Skeet suggested:

public byte[] read(InputStream istream)
{
  ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; // Experiment with this value
  int bytesRead;

  while ((bytesRead = istream.read(buffer)) != -1)
  {
    baos.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
  }

  return baos.toByteArray();
}


// after the process is run, we call this method with the String
public void readLines(byte[] data)
{
  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(data)));
  String line;

  while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
  {
    // do stuff with line
  }
}