/*
* ALMA - Atacama Large Millimiter Array
* (c) European Southern Observatory, 2002
* Copyright by ESO (in the framework of the ALMA collaboration),
* All rights reserved
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
* MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
package alma.acs.util;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
/**
* Helper class that reads all <code>char</code>s from a <code>Reader</code> object
* and returns them as a <code>String</code>.
*/
public class ReaderExtractor
{
private Reader m_reader;
public ReaderExtractor(Reader reader)
{
m_reader = reader;
}
public String extract() throws IOException
{
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
char[] cBuff = new char[256];
int readResult = m_reader.read(cBuff, 0, cBuff.length);
while (readResult > -1)
{
buffer.append(cBuff, 0, readResult);
readResult = m_reader.read(cBuff, 0, cBuff.length);
}
return buffer.toString();
}
}