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

This is a sample:

public class ByteBufferBackedInputStream extends InputStream {

    ByteBuffer buf;

    public ByteBufferBackedInputStream(ByteBuffer buf) {
        this.buf = buf;
    }

    public synchronized int read() throws IOException {
        if (!buf.hasRemaining()) {
            return -1;
        }
        return buf.get() & 0xFF;
    }

    @Override
    public int available() throws IOException {
        return buf.remaining();
    }

    public synchronized int read(byte[] bytes, int off, int len) throws IOException {
        if (!buf.hasRemaining()) {
            return -1;
        }

        len = Math.min(len, buf.remaining());
        buf.get(bytes, off, len);
        return len;
    }
}

And you can use it like this:

    String text = "this is text";   // It can be Unicode text
    ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(text.getBytes("UTF-8"));

    InputStream is = new ByteBufferBackedInputStream(buffer);
    InputStreamReader r = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(r);