planetj.servlet.wrapper
Interface Buffer

All Known Implementing Classes:

PrintWriterBuffer, ServletOutputStreamBuffer

public interface Buffer

Simple interface to abstract out both ServletOutputStreams and PrintWriters.

Method Summary

java.io.Reader	getAsReader() Produces a reader of the buffered data.
java.lang.String	getAsString() Produces the buffered data in string form.
boolean	prefersReader() True if it is more efficient to call toReader() than toString().
int	size()

Method Detail

getAsReader

public java.io.Reader getAsReader()
                           throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException

Produces a reader of the buffered data.

Throws:

java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException

getAsString

public java.lang.String getAsString()
                             throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException

Produces the buffered data in string form.

Throws:

java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException

prefersReader

public boolean prefersReader()

True if it is more efficient to call toReader() than toString().

size

public int size()

Returns:

the number of bytes or characters in the buffer.