Reading/Writing to and from buffers about laspy HOT 4 CLOSED

I don't think so. You are welcome to submit a PR with this feature!

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I'll try something, but from my understanding of the code, the filename gets propagated from
laspy.file.File -> laspy.base.FileManager -> laspy.base.DataProvider.
DataProvider being the actual object that opens the file.

So if I modify the DataProvider class to instead use a reference to a file/a buffer , I'll then need to make lots of modifications to 'progate' this change.

Or maybe we could add a new mode for reading bytes input ( 'b') and handle this case using if statements.
It seems that someone already tried this idea:
davidcaron@dd5d09b

Would there be another way to make it work ?

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@tmontaigu

It was a quick hack I made. I was using FME, a software from Safe. It could provide me with the content of the las file in memory and I wanted to avoid writing it to disk.

It works, however I can't say I'm happy with the "bytes" parameter and the way it's passed on the way down. It could be cleaner/simpler.

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@davidcaron

I had to use the same 'trick' to get something working easily.
I got a branch with this modifications that allows me to read from streams/buffers and get back the
bytes to re-upload/write.

And I agree that it's not clean, however I don't really like the software engeenering of the code.
It makes it harder to have a clean solution. So I ended-up starting something from scratch to see how it could go

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