com.healthmarketscience.rmiio
Class PacketOutputStream

java.lang.Object
  java.io.OutputStream
      com.healthmarketscience.rmiio.PacketOutputStream

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, Flushable

Direct Known Subclasses:

PipeBuffer.OutputStreamAdapter

public abstract class PacketOutputStream
extends OutputStream

Adds support for packet based access to data from an OutputStream. Can be more effecient for certain stream implementations, especially for remote stream usage where data is coming across the wire in byte[] packets.

Author:

James Ahlborn

Constructor Summary

PacketOutputStream()

Method Summary

abstract void

writePacket(byte[] packet) Puts the given "packet" into the output stream.

Methods inherited from class java.io.OutputStream

close, flush, write, write, write

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PacketOutputStream

public PacketOutputStream()

Method Detail

writePacket

public abstract void writePacket(byte[] packet)
                          throws IOException

Puts the given "packet" into the output stream. The packet should be filled with data. The caller is giving control of the buffer to the PacketOutputStream, and therefore should not attempt to use the byte[] again.

Parameters:

packet - fully filled array of bytes to give to the OutputStream

Throws:

IOException