Prashant Jain wrote:
>
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> Once the stream has been read the first time by calling foo(), trying to
> re-read by callin foo() again fails since the call fis.read()
> returns -1. What is needed is some way of resetting the stream. There is
> a pair of methods called mark/reset available in all Java streams but
> unfortunately they are not supported for any of the streams that I
> experimented with (including ServletInputStream).
>
> So this may seem more like a basic Java question -- how can an
> InputStream be reset so that its contents can be read again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Prashant
java.io.BufferedInputStream supports mark / reset as
long as the buffer still contains the marked point.
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