Package ucar.unidata.io

Interface ReadableRemoteFile

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

RemoteRandomAccessFile

public interface ReadableRemoteFile
extends Closeable

A remote file that can be read from.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	closeRemote()	Close any resources used to enable remote reading.
int	readRemote(long pos, byte[] buff, int offset, int len)	Read directly from the remote service.

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable

close

Method Details

readRemote

int readRemote(long pos,
 byte[] buff,
 int offset,
 int len)
        throws IOException

Read directly from the remote service. For HTTP based access, this is where "Accept-Ranges" HTTP requests are called to do random access

Parameters:

pos - start here in the file

buff - put data into this buffer

offset - buffer offset

len - this number of bytes

Returns:

actual number of bytes read

Throws:

IOException - on io error

closeRemote

void closeRemote()

Close any resources used to enable remote reading. For example, HTTPSession from httpservices, or S3Client from the AWS SDK