Le 6/16/13 9:31 PM, Raphaël Barazzutti a écrit : > Hi Julien, > > Thanks for your comments! > > You're right there are not that much differences between that two classes. > > In some situations I find IoBuffer very interesting, but in the case > of a decoder there are some concepts taken from ByteBuffer that in my > opinion don't fit very well. > > Lets describe briefly a case: In a decoder, the IoBuffer could be used > as a connection's buffer, then a given instance would be the context > of the connection. That buffer would be somehow used as a queue and > the position p0 would be the first byte of the communication. After > having enough bytes to process a message, the position would be moved > to position p1. Then we can expect that the buffer release the byte > buffer(s) containing the bytes in the range between p0 and p1. Then it > becomes a bit complicated to define the behaviour of position(int) > when a call to position(p0) is done. We just need to implement the slice() method in the IoBuffer to offer the kind of features you expect.
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