Question

I am reading an array of bytes passed in to me (not my choice, but i have to use it this way). I need to get the data to a LinkedBlockingQueue, and ultimately step through the bytes to build one or more (may contain partial messages) xml messages. So my question is this:

What generic should i use for the LBQ type?
what is the most efficient way to get the byte[] to that generic type?

Here is my example code:

parsebytes(byte[] bytes, int length)
{
    //assume that i am doing other checks on data

    if (length > 0)
    {
        myThread.putBytes(bytes, length);
    }
}

in my thread:

putBytes(byte[] bytes, int length)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
    { 
        blockingQueue.put(bytes[i]);
    }
}

I also do not want to have to pull off the blocking queue byte-by-byte either. I would rather grab everything that is in the queue and process it.

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a ListBlockingQueue. However, any BlockingQueue<Object> will accept byte[] since Java arrays are objects.

In the absence of other design considerations, the simplest option might be to just stick the arrays into the queue as they arrive, and let the consumer stich them together.