There's a FileStore class where the Get() method retrieves data directly
from the file. Maybe that is what you want to use.
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:14:25PM -0800, Brad Kollmyer wrote:
> Is there a way to set up a source so that it automatically does a Pump
> as needed? I want to be able to use Get and if there is not data to Get,
> then do a Pump. Take the following code snippet:
>
> FileSource fileSource("foobar", false);
> byte buf[1000];
> unsigned int len = fileSource.Get(buf, sizeof(buf));
>
> As written this will fail because nothing has been made available to
> 'Get'. If I add the following line after creating the FileSource it will
> work:
>
> fileSource.Pump(sizeof(buf));
>
> I know that I can do a 'Pump' as needed, but I am passing the FileSource
> (and StreamTransformationFilter) around using BufferedTransformation
> references which do not have access to the function 'Pump'.
>
> Is there a better way to do this? That is to allow me to read (Get) from
> a source?
>
> Brad.
