Re: HTTPURLConnection.connect() buffers its entire input.

[Nic Ferrier]

Stuart Ballard <address@hidden> writes:

> On 9/9/05, Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Personally, I think Chris should add a lazy (streaming) interface on
>> top. But there is a thread cost.
>
> Is there no way to only call select() when calls are made to the API,
> in the thread that makes the call? getInputStream() could return a
> stream that calls select() (directly or indirectly) in its available()
> and read() methods, getHeader() (if we don't want to get all the
> headers up front) could call select() if the header in question is not
> yet known, etc.

select blocks or times out after a period. So I guess you could do it
the way you suggest - with a very small timeout.


> I'm not really familiar with the nio API (as you can probably tell)
> but it seems like this kind of thing should be possible. Wasn't the
> whole point of nio to *avoid* the need for "thread-per-connection"
> programming?

NIO allows you to multiplex many connections with a single thread.



Nic