If I've got a buffer and I want fill it to its end by copying from a given Read
object, is there a utility method I can use? I know about copy
, but it seems to allocate an intermediate buffer which would be unnecessary in my case. Or is there a copy
version that's specialized for when the second argument (the Write
) is a buffer? There's Read::read_to_end()
as well but it takes Vec not a slice. There's Read::read_exact()
which looks perfect, but it seems to fail when it can't fill the buf completely which is something I don't want. I want this function to succeed even if it failed to fill and it should return how many bytes were copied.
Take
comes close as well, but it returns as soon as the underlying reader returns. I want it to continue to retry in a loop until the underlying reader returns 0 or an error occurs or the buffer is completely filled.
So far it looks like I'll have to roll something of my own . Any ideas?