On Thu, 15 May 2025 10:21:26 GMT, Markus KARG <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>> > Maybe a good idea at this point if @mkarg could provide an example of >>> > server code benefitting from returning a CharSequence... >>> >>> The most simple example is a file server. Incidential fact, just today I >>> wrote a function that simply passes JSON documents received in a REST call >>> forward to another server using another REST call (without parsing it). The >>> document is not changed. It is _inefficient_ to force it into a `String` >>> temporarily. This is not untypical, such use cases exists often in server >>> computing. >> >> Seems to me that in your example `Reader.transferTo(Writer)` would be the >> better choice instead of reading everything into a String or CharSequence >> and writing it to the next sink. > > If the source is a `Reader` **and** target is a `Writer`, yes. But what if it > is a native piece of hardware, like an IoT device, which produces / consumes > `CharSequence`? Also, in JAX-RS for example, you cannot make use of `transferTo` as what you get is a heap object, and what you must forward also is a heap object. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24728#discussion_r2090844002
