Wrapping a ByteBuffer with an InputStream

Question

I have a method that takes an InputStream and reads data from it. I would like to use this method with a ByteBuffer also. Is there a way to wrap a ByteBuffer so it can be accessed as a stream?

Answer 1

There seem to be some bugs with the implementation referred to by Thilo, and also copy and pasted on other sites verbatim:

1. ByteBufferBackedInputStream.read() returns a sign extended int representation of the byte it reads, which is wrong (value should be in range [-1..255])
2. ByteBufferBackedInputStream.read(byte[], int, int) does not return -1 when there are no bytes remaining in the buffer, as per the API spec

ByteBufferBackedOutputStream seems relatively sound.

I present a 'fixed' version below. If I find more bugs (or someone points them out) I'll update it here.

Updated: removed synchronized keywords from read/write methods

InputStream

public class ByteBufferBackedInputStream extends InputStream {

    ByteBuffer buf;

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

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

    public 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;
    }
}

OutputStream

public class ByteBufferBackedOutputStream extends OutputStream {
    ByteBuffer buf;

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

    public void write(int b) throws IOException {
        buf.put((byte) b);
    }

    public void write(byte[] bytes, int off, int len)
            throws IOException {
        buf.put(bytes, off, len);
    }

}