User:Brahmana/Streams in mozilla
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The Stream Mystery
Streams are one of the things that are pretty confusing to me in the Mozilla/XPCOM code base. Today it happened again. So I set down to demystify this stream mystery.
As a starter I listed the variety of stream related interfaces. I have listed only the input streams. For most items listed here there is a output stream counterpart.
List of Stream Interfaces
- nsIInputStream
- nsIAsyncInputStream
- nsIBinaryInputStream
- nsIConverterInputStream
- nsIInputStreamTee
- nsILineInputStream
- nsIMultiplexInputStream
- nsIObjectInputStream
- nsIScriptableInputStream
- nsISeekableStream
- nsIStorageStream
- nsIStringStream
- nsIUnicharInputStream
- nsIUnicharLineInputStream
- nsIBufferedInputStream
- nsIFileInputStream
- nsIMIMEInputStream
- nsIPluginInputStream
- imgIEncoder
