[IO-549] Make ByteArrayOutputStream.toBufferedInputStream public

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: Streams/Writers
• Labels: performance
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rob Reeves
• Created: 08/Sep/17 14:53
• Updated: 20/Jun/22 18:37
• Resolved: 20/Jun/22 18:37

Description

I'm working on a project where I need to aggregate a lot of data in memory. To do this I'm using GzipOutputStream backed by org.apache.commons.io.output.ByteArrayOutputStream. After the aggregation is done I eventually will read the data back out. I'm trying to avoid byte[] buffer copies to reduce the memory usage. ByteArrayOutputStream.toBufferedInputStream seems like the perfect way to do this, but it's a private method. I would only call it after I'm done writing to the ByteArrayOutputStream object. Is there any reason I shouldn't use this method? Could it be made public? Thanks!