com.upokecenter.util.IReader

public interface IReader extends IByteReader

A generic interface for reading bytes of data from a data source.

Methods

int Read(byte[] bytes, int offset, int length)
Reads a portion of a byte array from the data source.

int Read(byte[] bytes, int offset, int length)

Reads a portion of a byte array from the data source.

Parameters:

bytes - A byte array which will contain the data that was read from the data source.
offset - An index starting at 0 showing where the desired portion of bytes begins.
length - The number of elements in the desired portion of bytes (but not more than bytes 's length).

Returns:

The number of bytes read from the data source. Can be less than length if the end of the stream was reached.

Throws:

NullPointerException - Should be thrown if the parameter bytes is null.
IllegalArgumentException - Should be thrown if either offset or length is less than 0 or greater than bytes 's length, or bytes 's length minus offset is less than length.