Read file at a certain rate in Java

Question

Is there an article/algorithm on how I can read a long file at a certain rate?

Say I do not want to pass 10 KB/sec while issuing reads.

Answer 1

You can use a RateLimiter. And make your own implementation of the read in InputStream. An example of this can be seen bellow

public class InputStreamFlow extends InputStream {
    private final InputStream inputStream;
    private final RateLimiter maxBytesPerSecond;

    public InputStreamFlow(InputStream inputStream, RateLimiter limiter) {
        this.inputStream = inputStream;
        this.maxBytesPerSecond = limiter;
    }

    @Override
    public int read() throws IOException {
        maxBytesPerSecond.acquire(1);
        return (inputStream.read());
    }

    @Override
    public int read(byte[] b) throws IOException {
        maxBytesPerSecond.acquire(b.length);
        return (inputStream.read(b));
    }

    @Override
    public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
        maxBytesPerSecond.acquire(len);
        return (inputStream.read(b,off, len));
    }
}

if you want to limit the flow by 1 MB/s you can get the input stream like this:

final RateLimiter limiter = RateLimiter.create(RateLimiter.ONE_MB); 
final InputStreamFlow inputStreamFlow = new InputStreamFlow(originalInputStream, limiter);