Writing Data to an NSOutputStream in Swift 3

Question

The solution of this question no longer works with Swift 3.

There is no longer a property bytes of Data (formerly NSData.

Answer 1

Just use this extension:

Swift 5

extension OutputStream {
  func write(data: Data) -> Int {
    return data.withUnsafeBytes {
      write($0.bindMemory(to: UInt8.self).baseAddress!, maxLength: data.count)
    }
  }
}

And for InputStream

extension InputStream {
  func read(data: inout Data) -> Int {
    return data.withUnsafeMutableBytes {
      read($0.bindMemory(to: UInt8.self).baseAddress!, maxLength: data.count)
    }
  }
}

Swift 4

extension OutputStream {
  func write(data: Data) -> Int {
    return data.withUnsafeBytes { write($0, maxLength: data.count) }
  }
}
extension InputStream {
  func read(data: inout Data) -> Int {
    return data.withUnsafeMutableBytes { read($0, maxLength: data.count) }
  }
}