BufferedReader for a great ByteBuffer?

Question

Is there a way to read a ByteBuffer with a BufferedReader without having to turn it into a string first? I want to read a rather large ByteBuffer as lines of text, and for performance reasons, I want to avoid writing to disk. Calling toString in ByteBuffer does not work because the resulting string is too large (it throws java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space). I would have thought that there would be something in the API to wrap the ByteBuffer in a suitable reader, but I cannot find anything suitable.

Here's an example of shorthand code showing what I'm doing):

// input stream is from Process getInputStream()
public String read(InputStream istream)
{
  ReadableByteChannel source = Channels.newChannel(istream);
  ByteArrayOutputStream ostream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(bufferSize);
  WritableByteChannel destination = Channels.newChannel(ostream);
  ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(writeBufferSize);

  while (source.read(buffer) != -1)
  {
    buffer.flip();
    while (buffer.hasRemaining())
    {
      destination.write(buffer);
    }
    buffer.clear();
  }

  // this data can be up to 150 MB.. won't fit in a String.
  result = ostream.toString();
  source.close();
  destination.close();
  return result;
}

// after the process is run, we call this method with the String
public void readLines(String text)
{
  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(text));
  String line;

  while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
  {
    // do stuff with line
  }
}

Answer 1

, - . InputStream , InputStreamReader, BufferedReader? NIO?

toString() ByteArrayOutputStream , : ByteArrayInputStream, InputStreamReader, ByteArrayOutputStream. toString(), , , , , , , , .

EDIT: , NIO. ByteArrayOutputStream , BAOS . , ByteArrayOutputStream, :

public class ReadableByteArrayOutputStream extends ByteArrayOutputStream
{
    /**
     * Converts the data in the current stream into a ByteArrayInputStream.
     * The resulting stream wraps the existing byte array directly;
     * further writes to this output stream will result in unpredictable
     * behavior.
     */
    public InputStream toInputStream()
    {
        return new ByteArrayInputStream(array, 0, count);
    }
}

, InputStreamReader, BufferedReader, .

Answer 2

NIO, . :

public byte[] read(InputStream istream)
{
  ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; // Experiment with this value
  int bytesRead;

  while ((bytesRead = istream.read(buffer)) != -1)
  {
    baos.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
  }

  return baos.toByteArray();
}


// after the process is run, we call this method with the String
public void readLines(byte[] data)
{
  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(data)));
  String line;

  while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
  {
    // do stuff with line
  }
}

Answer 3

:

public class ByteBufferBackedInputStream extends InputStream {

    ByteBuffer buf;

    public ByteBufferBackedInputStream(ByteBuffer buf) {
        this.buf = buf;
    }

    public synchronized int read() throws IOException {
        if (!buf.hasRemaining()) {
            return -1;
        }
        return buf.get() & 0xFF;
    }

    @Override
    public int available() throws IOException {
        return buf.remaining();
    }

    public synchronized int read(byte[] bytes, int off, int len) throws IOException {
        if (!buf.hasRemaining()) {
            return -1;
        }

        len = Math.min(len, buf.remaining());
        buf.get(bytes, off, len);
        return len;
    }
}

:

    String text = "this is text";   // It can be Unicode text
    ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(text.getBytes("UTF-8"));

    InputStream is = new ByteBufferBackedInputStream(buffer);
    InputStreamReader r = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(r);