Reading self-terminating streams about flate2-rs HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for the report! This came up in the past with #14 (I think with even the same use case!), which eventually prompted the creation of the Decompress struct for dealing with raw in-memory decompression (e.g. no extra buffering). That being said I can see where it's much nicer to use the stream API, so I'd be totally down for beefing it up!

First, although all streams and such have R: Read as a type parameter, &mut R also satisfies this which means you don't actually have to pass ownership of the file into the deflate streams. Instead you can pass a mutable reference and then once the deflate stream is destroyed you can continue to use the underlying stream (e.g. seek it to the right position and whatnot).

I agree that dealing with Seek directly would be a little unfortunate, so I think a good way to move forward here would be to expose a method like consumed_bytes you mentioned. Does that sound ok for your use case?

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I think with even the same use case.

Yep, indeed. I'm glad other people are thinking along the same lines; it means I'm not totally crazy :)

First, although all streams and such have R: Read as a type parameter, &mut R also satisfies this which means you don't actually have to pass ownership of the file into the deflate streams.

Ah, perfect! Today I learned...

Does that sound ok for your use case?

Yep, that'll do nicely. I'll take a stab at putting that together.

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