335342 - provide better NS_NewStringInputStream

Status: NEW

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

provide better NS_NewStringInputStream

NS_NewStringInputStream currently decimates the input string to produce a byte array.  It should probably do something smarter, such as converting to UTF-8 or simply producing a byte array of UTF-16 (w/ platform endianness).

See bug 335298, where extra work was required to deal with the current API.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The thing I was complaining about even more, though, was that I'd like something that's usable from Javascript -- i.e., a way of creating a channel from string data in JavaScript that actually doesn't destroy data, that's just as easy as the way that does destroy data.  For example, a method on nsIStringInputStream or a new interface, that used AUTF8String arguments.

Comment 2

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

you can use http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/intl/uconv/idl/nsIScriptableUConv.idl#91 for that purpose, can't you? that even allows you to specify the desired charset.

Comment 3

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

also note bug 230440

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I filed bug 336513 on comment 1.