package org.apache.maven.util;

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;


/**
 * A class to asynchronously read the provided InputStream and
 * provide the output as a String
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:dion@multitask.com.au">dIon Gillard</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class AsyncStreamReader extends Thread
{
    /** buffer to dump output to */
    private StringBuffer streamBuffer = new StringBuffer();

    /** stream to read from */
    private BufferedReader stream;

    /**
     * Create a reader to process the provided stream
     * @param anInputStream any input stream
     */
    public AsyncStreamReader( InputStream anInputStream )
    {
        if ( anInputStream == null )
        {
            throw new NullPointerException( "input stream parameter is null" );
        }

        stream = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( anInputStream ) );
    }

    /**
     * Read lines from the input stream provided, appending to a buffer
     * for retrieval via the toString() method
     */
    public void run()
    {
        String line;

        try
        {
            while ( ( line = stream.readLine() ) != null )
            {
                if ( okToConsume( line ) )
                {
                    streamBuffer.append( line );
                    streamBuffer.append( '\n' );
                }
            }
        }
        catch ( IOException ioe )
        {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return the contents of the buffer
     */
    public String toString()
    {
        return streamBuffer.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Indicate if its ok to consume (add to the buffer) this line.  This
     * implementation always returns <code>true</code>.
     *
     * @param line the line to check.
     * @return if its ok to add this line to the buffer.
     */
    protected boolean okToConsume( String line )
    {
        return true;
    }
}
 // end of AsyncStreamReader