[Building Sakai] ResourcesToolActionPipe: When does it "stream" ?

[Branden Visser]

I received no response for this on- or off-list, but this is pretty 
important for us to test an enhancement that streams binary content to 
the database.

Any advice on how to test this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Branden

Branden Visser wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When will the ResourcesToolActionPipe hold a stream instead of the 
> binary content?
> 
> The JavaDoc states when it is a certain size or type [1], but does 
> anyone know where those boundaries are? Plain english or a pointer to a 
> java file will do.
> 
> Looking forward, would it be a best practice to always use a stream 
> instead of a byte array until the last possibly minute? If so, can we 
> @Deprecate the content methods that are using byte[] ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Branden
> 
> [1] 
> http://qa1-nl.sakaiproject.org/codereview/trunk/api/org/sakaiproject/content/api/ResourceToolActionPipe.java.html#58
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