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Junjie Peng reassigned DERBY-3770:
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Assignee: Junjie Peng
> Create a utility class for skipping data in an InputStream
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> Key: DERBY-3770
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3770
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Miscellaneous
> Affects Versions: 10.5.0.0
> Reporter: Kristian Waagan
> Assignee: Junjie Peng
> Priority: Minor
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> The contract of InputStream.skip is somewhat difficult, some would even say
> broken.
> See http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html#skip(long))
> A utility class should be created to ensure that we use the same skip
> procedure throughout the Derby code base.
> Suggested functionality:
> - long skipFully(InputStream) : skips until EOF, returns number of bytes
> skipped
> - void skipFully(InputStream,long) : skips requested number of bytes, throws
> EOFException if there is too few bytes in the stream
> I know of two different approaches, both skipping in a loop:
> a) Verify EOF with a read call when skip returns zero.
> b) Throw EOFException if skip returns zero before requested number of bytes
> have been skipped.
> There's related code in iapi.util.UTF8Util. Maybe this class, say StreamUtil,
> could be put in the same package?
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