DataOutputBuffer.java

/* Copyright (c) 2003 The Nutch Organization.  All rights reserved.   */
/* Use subject to the conditions in http://www.nutch.org/LICENSE.txt. */

package net.nutch.io;

import java.io.*;

/** A reusable {@link DataOutput} implementation that writes to an in-memory
 * buffer.
 *
 * <p>This saves memory over creating a new DataOutputStream and
 * ByteArrayOutputStream each time data is written.
 *
 * <p>Typical usage is something like the following:<pre>
 *
 * DataOutputBuffer buffer = new DataOutputBuffer();
 * while (... loop condition ...) {
 *   buffer.reset();
 *   ... write buffer using DataOutput methods ...
 *   byte[] data = buffer.getData();
 *   int dataLength = buffer.getLength();
 *   ... write data to its ultimate destination ...
 * }
 * </pre>
 *  
 * @author Doug Cutting
 */
public class DataOutputBuffer extends DataOutputStream {

  private static class Buffer extends ByteArrayOutputStream {
    public byte[] getData() { return buf; }
    public int getLength() { return count; }
    public void reset() { count = 0; }

    public void write(DataInput in, int len) throws IOException {
      int newcount = count + len;
      if (newcount > buf.length) {
        byte newbuf[] = new byte[Math.max(buf.length << 1, newcount)];
        System.arraycopy(buf, 0, newbuf, 0, count);
        buf = newbuf;
      }
      in.readFully(buf, count, len);
      count = newcount;
    }
  }

  private Buffer buffer;
  
  /** Constructs a new empty buffer. */
  public DataOutputBuffer() {
    this(new Buffer());
  }
  
  private DataOutputBuffer(Buffer buffer) {
    super(buffer);
    this.buffer = buffer;
  }

  /** Returns the current contents of the buffer.
   *  Data is only valid to {@link #getLength()}.
   */
  public byte[] getData() { return buffer.getData(); }

  /** Returns the length of the valid data currently in the buffer. */
  public int getLength() { return buffer.getLength(); }

  /** Resets the buffer to empty. */
  public DataOutputBuffer reset() {
    this.written = 0;
    buffer.reset();
    return this;
  }

  /** Writes bytes from a DataInput directly into the buffer. */
  public void write(DataInput in, int length) throws IOException {
    buffer.write(in, length);
  }
}