S3ObjectInputStream.java

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package com.amazonaws.services.s3.model;

import java.io.FilterInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.SocketException;

import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpRequestBase;
import org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream;

/**
 * Input stream representing the content of an {@link S3Object}. In addition to
 * the methods supplied by the {@link InputStream} class,
 * {@link S3ObjectInputStream} supplies the abort() method, which will terminate
 * an HTTP connection to the S3 object.
 */
public class S3ObjectInputStream extends FilterInputStream {

    private final HttpRequestBase httpRequest;

    public S3ObjectInputStream(InputStream in, HttpRequestBase httpRequest) {
        super(in);
        this.httpRequest = httpRequest;
    }

    /**
     * Aborts the underlying http request without reading any more data and
     * closes the stream.
     * <p>
     * By default Apache {@link HttpClient} tries to reuse http connections by
     * reading to the end of an attached input stream on
     * {@link InputStream#close()}. This is efficient from a socket pool
     * management perspective, but for objects with large payloads can incur
     * significant overhead while bytes are read from s3 and discarded. It's up
     * to clients to decide when to take the performance hit implicit in not
     * reusing an http connection in order to not read unnecessary information
     * from S3.
     * 
     * @see EofSensorInputStream
     */
    public void abort() throws IOException {
        getHttpRequest().abort();
        try {
            close();            
        } catch (SocketException e) {
            // expected from some implementations because the stream is closed
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the http request from which this input stream is derived.
     */
    public HttpRequestBase getHttpRequest() {
        return httpRequest;
    }

}