288874 - nsIByteArrayInputStream not scriptable

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

It would be nice to be able to create an input stream from a byte array in JS;
but
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpcom/io/nsIByteArrayInputStream.idl#41
is only useful from C++.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

nsIByteArrayInputStream is redundant.  I have wanted to remove it for some time.
 nsIStringInputStream is a fine replacement for C++ consumers, but it also has
problems for JS consumers.  It might make sense to use nsIStorageStream in
conjunction with nsIBinaryOutputStream or something like that.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

could nsIStringInputStream get methods like:

  void setData([const,array,size_is(length)]in octet data, in unsigned long length);
  void setStringAsUTF8(in AString string);

which would make it a lot more useful from js? storage stream is a bit more
complex, since you need to write your data to an outputstream first, and writing
binary data to output streams requires wrapping an nsIBinaryOutputStream around
it too.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This file and interface doesn't appear to exist any more.