> From: Tim O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Alex Karasulu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been working on the idea of stateful Decoders designed for use with
> > non-blocking reads where buffers are read from channels and used by
> > decoders.  As you know you don't always get the complete PDU in a single
> > channel read and so buffers need to be handled in a decoding session.
> >
> > This JIRA issue contains attachments explaining the new interface:
> >
> > http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?id=13599
> >
> > First I would like to figure out what the codec people think about this
> > stateful decoder concept and then perhaps we can add the interfaces into
> the
> > codec for general use.
> >
> 
> Well reasoned issue discussion - especially with regards to memory
> footprint, scalability. I think StatefulDecoder would be a welcome
> addition to Commons Codec - subpackage "stateful"?

I had the same exact notion wrt subpackage stateful.

> Requesting your permission to use the discussion in JIRA as
> documentation?  This is a good opportunity to provide an interface and a
> pointer to well conceived implementation within the ASF.

Absolutely!

> > Also I'm wondering if we can make the DecoderException and the
> > EncoderException extend the IOException reather than just Exception.
> > Most of these operations are IO based and it makes sense to me to have
> the
> > Exception derive from IOException.
> >
> 
> Already chimed in, I'm +1 on this.

Great! We just need to figure out if the throws on interfaces use
IOException or a subclass of IOException.  Not certain about this 
right now.  What are your thoughts?  Please see the other trail
specifically on the exception issue.

Alex



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