Unfortunately this feature has arrived a little too late so I’m withdrawing it from consideration for JDK 9. Thanks again to those who took time to review it.
> On 10 Dec 2016, at 01:02, Vincent Ryan <vincent.x.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Thanks to those who provided review comments. > > I have incorporated most of them and updated the webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8170769/webrev.01/ > > The main changes are to tighten up the javadoc spec and to add three > additional methods > to support byte array ranges. The total number of public methods is now 7. > > I have not added support for InputStream or ByteBuffer. I think what we have > in place is > sufficient for now and HexDump can be enhanced later if there is demand. > > The other issue is related to streams implementation and I’d like to defer > that until later. > > > I think the API is in good shape now but please let me know if there are any > must-fix API issues. > Otherwise I will consider the API finalised and move this forward. > > Thanks. >