Class: NullEncoder (private in CharacterEncoder

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • encoding & decoding
  • queries
  • stream support

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--CharacterEncoder
      |
      +--CharacterEncoder::NullEncoder
         |
         +--CharacterEncoder::DefaultEncoder

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Collections-Text-Encodings

Owner:

CharacterEncoder

Description:

A NullEncoder does nothing.

Instance protocol:

 decodeString: anEncodedStringOrByteCollection

(comment from inherited method)
given a string in my encoding, return a unicode-string for it

 encodeString: aString

(comment from inherited method)
given a string in unicode, return a string or ByteArray in my encoding for it

 characterSize: charOrCodePoint

return the number of bytes required to encode aCharacterOrCodepoint

Usage example(s):

NullEncoder basicNew characterSize:$a codePoint NullEncoder basicNew characterSize:16r3fe NullEncoder basicNew characterSize:16r3ffe

 isNullEncoder

 readNext: count charactersFrom: aStream

 readNextCharacterFrom: aStream