On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>wrote: > I see. I kinda thought that if you omitted size it would just give you > everything in stream's buffer and not everything until end-of-stream. > > OK. So, are you fine with making read() without size param read contents until EoS? > > >> Do we even need that? It seems just passing ArrayBuffer in and out > >> could be sufficient for now? > > > > As one of read()'s arguments? > > As for what it would return. Or do we have use cases where decoding to > strings and/or Blobs are important? > > Decoding to DOMString may be useful though it would involves messy character decoding code/spec. It's possible that for some specified maxSize, the result ends in the middle of a multibyte sequence. We could keep an incomplete sequence inside Stream and return it once it completes for the following read() ops.
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