Class: DummyStream (in Comanche)

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Stream
      |
      +--Comanche::DummyStream

Package:

stx:goodies/webServer/comanche/swiki

Category:

Comanche-Swiki-Squeak-Classes

Version:

rev: 1.7 date: 2003/08/29 17:04:59

user: cg

file: DummyStream.st directory: goodies/webServer/comanche/swiki

module: stx stc-classLibrary: swiki

Description:

The purpose of this class is to absorb all steam messages and do nothing.  This is so ReferenceStream can pretend to write on it while traversing all objects it would normally write.  We need to know what those object are.  8/17/96 tk

Class protocol:

 on: aFile

Return a new DummyStream instance, ignoring the argument.

Instance protocol:

 binary

do nothing

 close

do nothing

 nextInt32Put: arg

do nothing

 nextNumber: cnt put: num

do nothing

 nextPut: aByte

do nothing

 nextPutAll: aByteArray

do nothing

 nextStringPut: aString

do nothing

 originalContents

 position

Return any random number. Here is where the real lying begins. We are a DummyStream afterall. 8/17/96 tk

 position: anOffset

Pretend to position wherever the caller says!

 skip: aNumber

Do nothing.

 subclassResponsibility

Do nothing. Most messages to class Stream are defined as subclassResponsibility. Just accept them. 8/17/96 tk