[IO-290] Add read/readFully methods to IOUtils

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 25/Oct/11 17:13
• Updated: 29/Mar/12 21:32
• Resolved: 16/Nov/11 02:48

Description

When reading from network etc, it's possible for a read to return before it has read as many bytes as would fit in the buffer.
Sometimes multiple reads are needed to fulfil the request.

It would be useful to have read() versions of the skip() methods.

int actual = read(Reader, byte buffer [,offset, length]) // returns normally on EOF
int actual = read(InputStream, char buffer [,offset, length])

int actual = readFully(Reader, byte buffer [,offset, length]) // throws EOFException
int actual = readFully(InputStream, char buffer [,offset, length])