Blackbox

interface Blackbox

Unified interface for anything that receives and responds to input without any access to or relevance for its internal states.

Should be able to wrap STDIN/STDOUT, pipes, JNI, NDK, network sockets, external processes, embedded code, etc, and make them all interchangeable.

Functions

equals

open operator fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean

hashCode

open fun hashCode(): Int

read

open fun read(block: Boolean = true): String

readAll

open fun readAll(block: Boolean = true, limit: Int = 0): List<String>

Read out all lines up to a limit if given a limit greater than zero.

start

open fun start()

stop

open fun stop(): Exception?

Try to shut down this black box.

toString

write

open fun write(string: String)

Write a single string to the black box.

isAlive

Whether this black box is "running", and able to receive and respond to input.

readyForRead

Approximate number of items ready to be read. Should try to always return 0 correctly, but may return 1 if a greater number of items are available.

readyForWrite

Whether this black box is ready to be written to.

SubprocessBlackbox

jvm source