[QPID-7586] [Java Broker] [AMQP 1.0] Simplify the AMQP codec so that it always assumes that the buffer it is writing into is large enough

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: qpid-java-broker-7.0.0
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Lorenz Quack
• Reporter: Robert Godfrey
• Created: 11/Dec/16 15:57
• Updated: 14/Nov/17 22:01
• Resolved: 26/Jan/17 10:20

Description

The way the codec is used, we always allocate enough space for the entire value to be written. We can simplify the codec by separating the operation to get the required buffer size from the implementation of writing to the buffer