On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> Reading any format that contains textual data. I.e. things like HTML, >> OpenDocument, pdf, etc. While many of those are compressed, it seems >> likely that you could pass a stream through a decompressor which >> produces a decompressed stream. > > Yeah, extending APIs for such features to support streams seems better > than adding support for all of them on Stream. Letting Stream just be > a low-level primitive for a stream of bytes seems good enough.
What do you mean by "such features"? Are you saying that a Stream zip decompressor should be responsible for both decompressing as well as binary->text conversion? And thus output something other than a Stream? / Jonas
