Re: Handle Byte Array

2007/5/23, Lars Kühne <[email protected]>:
> 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.

Hi Lars!

Thanks for your answer! Which API do you mean? I couldn't find the one
which should handle ByteArrayInputStream.

thanks,
dominik

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