Re: Handle Byte Array

On 5/23/07, Dominik Karall wrote:
> Does checkstyle provide an interface for reading from a byte array
> instead of handling java File for checking?

No, but this is an open feature request (#737698). Note that you could
wrap your byte[] inside a ByteArrayInputStream and use the suggested
API.

There is only one slight complication, and that is that some checks
(e.g. Translation or PackageHtml) look at neighbor files in the file
system to do their thing, so the "pass in a set of streams" idea is a
bit too simplistic, maybe something like apache commons vfs is
required.

> Because I want to include the checker in a project which should scan
> byte arrays instead of files. If checkstyle doesn't provide such an
> interface, is there any java possibility to use the byte[] as a File
> (without creating one)?

No, that's not possible.

Cheers,
Lars

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