/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *     Jens Lukowski/Innoopract - initial renaming/restructuring
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.web.ui.internal.derived;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;

/**
*

* Provisional API: This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under development and expected to
* change significantly before reaching stability. It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback
* from pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly be broken
* (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
*/
public abstract class SingleCharReader extends Reader {
	/**
	 * Gets the content as a String
	 */
	public String getString() throws IOException {
		StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
		int ch;
		while ((ch = read()) != -1) {
			buf.append((char) ch);
		}
		return buf.toString();
	}
	
	/**
	 * @see Reader#read()
	 */
	
	public abstract int read() throws IOException;
	
	/**
	 * @see Reader#read(char[],int,int)
	 */
	
	public int read(char cbuf[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
		int end = off + len;
		for (int i = off; i < end; i++) {
			int ch = read();
			if (ch == -1) {
				if (i == off) {
					return -1;
				}
				return i - off;
			}
			cbuf[i] = (char) ch;
		}
		return len;
	}
	
	/**
	 * @see Reader#ready()
	 */
	
	public boolean ready() throws IOException {
		return true;
	}
}