On 3/17/10 5:04 PM, Alessio Stalla wrote: […]
I wrote sys::%make-byte-array-output-stream in order to make the runtime compiler capable of generating bytecode without using temporary files; it wasn't meant to be used by the ABCL user, and as such it's not very polished (for example, the type of a byte-array-output-stream is simply STREAM). In any case, it's defined in the ByteArrayOutputStream Java class, and as you correctly noted, it explicitly sets the element type to (unsigned-byte 8). As a quick and dirty solution, you could more or less copy-paste that class and replace "output" with "input" :) (as well as update Autoload.java to make ABCL know of the new primitives).
We should probably polish it a bit and release it as an extension.
Well, at least we should quickly whip out the inverse version so David doesn't have to rely on hacking Stream.java (although I'm not sure when telling Stream that initAsBinaryStream() means a format of unsigned 8bit bytes will fail).
I think we can commit to the interface you've implemented in ByteArrayOutputStream, as those are the basic necessary operations.
Or maybe I am not seeing what potential problems there would be with this as a short-term strategy, Alessio?