Empty InputStream

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Language: Java

Posted by: JM Brun

Added: Aug 9, 2018 1:01 PM

Tags: empty inputstream

// Since InputStream has only one abstract method,
// it is easy to create an empty stream by an anonymous subclass
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49264502/how-to-represent-an-empty-inputstream
InputStream empty = new InputStream() {
@Override
public int read() {
return -1; // end of stream
}
};