Buffering NSOutputStream used as NSInputStream?

Question

I have this consumer class that takes an NSInputStream as argument which will be processed async, and I want to push data that comes from a producer class that requires that

Answer 1

One way to accomplish this would be to use the example code on the apple developer site. SimpleURLConnection example

This is how to do it, as can be seen in the PostController.m code

@interface NSStream (BoundPairAdditions)
+ (void)createBoundInputStream:(NSInputStream **)inputStreamPtr outputStream:(NSOutputStream **)outputStreamPtr bufferSize:(NSUInteger)bufferSize;
@end

@implementation NSStream (BoundPairAdditions)

+ (void)createBoundInputStream:(NSInputStream **)inputStreamPtr outputStream:(NSOutputStream **)outputStreamPtr bufferSize:(NSUInteger)bufferSize
{
    CFReadStreamRef     readStream;
    CFWriteStreamRef    writeStream;

    assert( (inputStreamPtr != NULL) || (outputStreamPtr != NULL) );

    readStream = NULL;
    writeStream = NULL;

    CFStreamCreateBoundPair(
        NULL, 
        ((inputStreamPtr  != nil) ? &readStream : NULL),
        ((outputStreamPtr != nil) ? &writeStream : NULL), 
        (CFIndex) bufferSize);

    if (inputStreamPtr != NULL) {
        *inputStreamPtr  = [NSMakeCollectable(readStream) autorelease];
    }
    if (outputStreamPtr != NULL) {
        *outputStreamPtr = [NSMakeCollectable(writeStream) autorelease];
    }
}
@end

Basically you attach the ends of two streams together with a buffer.