Is there a straightforward way to read all bytes f...

# io

[rnett]

Is there a straightforward way to read all bytes from a source in some reasonable chunks, ideally in a way that can handle the consumer suspending? My particular need is to send it to MessageDigest but it seems like a pretty straightforward and common operation

[rnett]

So far the best way seems to be to essentially re-implement OutputStreamSink

[jw]

Isn't MessageDigest blocking? Who is suspending?

[jw]

Generally you'll want to use UnsafeBufferOperations to pass the backing byte arrays to MessageDigest directly and without copies.

[rnett]

Nobody is suspending at the moment, I'm just thinking ahead.
> Generally you'll want to use UnsafeBufferOperations to pass the backing byte arrays to MessageDigest directly and without copies.
That's what I'm doing, I'm just surprised that I needed to write it myself instead of there being a consume function or similar and was wondering if I had just missed it