Growing ByteBuffer

Question

Has anyone has ever seen an implementation of java.nio.ByteBuffer that will grow dynamically if a putX() call overruns the capacity?

The reason I want to do it this way

Answer 1

Another solution for this would be to allocate more than enough memory, fill the ByteBuffer and then only return the occupied byte array:

Initialize a big ByteBuffer:

ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1000);

After you're done putting things into it:

private static byte[] getOccupiedArray(ByteBuffer byteBuffer)
{
    int position = byteBuffer.position();
    return Arrays.copyOfRange(byteBuffer.array(), 0, position);
}

However, using a org.apache.commons.io.output.ByteArrayOutputStream from the start would probably be the best solution.