Vec<u8> to Read

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I have a foo: Vec<u8>. I need to create something which implements trait Read. How do I do this?

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Are you trying to achieve something like described here with its stop condition in mind looking for an EOF or something more like a buffer like Cursor?

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I was running into the same issue as rust - How to read (std::io::Read) from a Vec or Slice? - Stack Overflow

It appears the answer is &foo[..], to convert the Vec to a slice, which, as the llink above you provided shows, implements Read.

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Yes but if it's not meant to be read as text then it won't work, so keep that in mind.

Read is implemented for &[u8] by copying from the slice.
Note that reading updates the slice to point to the yet unread part. The slice will be empty when EOF is reached.

Although I see no mention of it in the impl

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This confuses me. Does this modify the originating Vec?

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No, as far as I can see it does this:

  1. You create a reference (from now it'll be easier to think of it as a pointer) to the start of the Vec<u8>
  2. You read n u8 from the pointer
  3. This increments the pointer by n u8 (And adjusts the len because a &[T] is a fat pointer)

It doesn't change the Vec.

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This interpretation makes sense. Thanks!