NaReN wrote:
> Well, primarily because it didn't work :) I gathered the open method
> returns an nsIInputStream and I need to read its contents to look at
> the data. I tied to do that but failed and was not too sure if that
> was the right thing to do. Reading output data from an input stream
> didn't sound like i was on the right track.
I'm not sure what you mean with "output data", but input streams are the
only kinds of streams you can read from. That's basically their definition.
> Could you give me a few pointers on reading data from an
> nsIInputStream ? The data returned by the HTTP request may be either
> XML or text .
So in JS this is slightly harder than in C++, but it's basically like
this: (note that the code as I write it here is not very i18n-friendly,
and would also fail for binary data)
var stream = channel.open();
var scriptableInputStream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/
scriptableinputstream;
1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableInputStream);
scriptableInputStream.init(stream);
var data = "";
do {
var str = scriptableInputStream.read(1024);
data += str;
} while (str.length > 0);
--
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts, [...] --W. Shakespeare
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