Is there a way to convert a System.IO.Stream to a Windows.Storage.Streams.IRandomAccessStream?

Question

In Windows 8; I would like to pass the contents of a MemoryStream to a class that accepts a parameter of type Windows.Storage.Streams.IRandomAccessStream. Is there any way t

Answer 1

After some experimenting I found the following code to be working.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Windows.Storage.Streams;

partial class MainPage
{
    public MainPage()
    {
        var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(new byte[] { 65, 66, 67 });
        ConvertToRandomAccessStream(memoryStream, UseRandomAccessStream);
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    void UseRandomAccessStream(IRandomAccessStream stream)
    {
        var size = stream.Size;
    } // put breakpoint here to check size

    private static async void ConvertToRandomAccessStream(MemoryStream memoryStream,
         Action callback)
    {
        var randomAccessStream = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream();
        var outputStream = randomAccessStream.GetOutputStreamAt(0);
        var dw = new DataWriter(outputStream);
        var task = new Task(() => dw.WriteBytes(memoryStream.ToArray()));
        task.Start();
        await task;
        await dw.StoreAsync();
        var success = await outputStream.FlushAsync();
        callback(randomAccessStream);
    }
}

UPDATE: I also tried more elegant method implementation:

    private static void ConvertToRandomAccessStream(MemoryStream memoryStream,
        Action callback)
    {
        var randomAccessStream = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream();
        var outputStream = randomAccessStream.GetOutputStreamAt(0);
        RandomAccessStream.Copy(memoryStream.AsInputStream(), outputStream);
        callback(randomAccessStream);
    }

Strangely, it doesn't work. When I call stream.Size later, I get zero.

UPDATE I changed the function to return the IRandomAccessStream rather than using the callback function

public static async Task ConvertToRandomAccessStream(MemoryStream memoryStream)
{
    var randomAccessStream = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream();

    var outputStream = randomAccessStream.GetOutputStreamAt(0);
    var dw = new DataWriter(outputStream);
    var task = new Task(() => dw.WriteBytes(memoryStream.ToArray()));
    task.Start();

    await task;
    await dw.StoreAsync();

    await outputStream.FlushAsync();

    return randomAccessStream;
}