Class XmlInputStream

java.lang.Object

java.io.InputStream

java.io.FilterInputStream

org.owasp.dependencycheck.xml.XmlInputStream

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, AutoCloseable

@NotThreadSafe
public class XmlInputStream
extends FilterInputStream

Cleans up often very bad XML. Primarily, this will convert named HTM entities into their HTM encoded Unicode code point representation.

1. Strips leading white space
2. Recodes £ etc to &#...;
3. Recodes lone & as &

This is a slightly modified (class/method rename) from an SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7286428/help-the-java-sax-parser-to-understand-bad-xml

Author:

https://stackoverflow.com/users/823393/oldcurmudgeon

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class FilterInputStream

in

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
XmlInputStream(InputStream in)	Constructs a new XML Input Stream.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	length()	NB: This is a Troll length (i.e. it goes 1, 2, many) so 2 actually means "at least 2"
int	read()	Reads the next byte.
int	read(@NonNull byte[] data, int offset, int length)	Reads the next length of bytes from the stream into the given byte array at the given offset.
String	toString()	To string implementation.

Methods inherited from class FilterInputStream

available, close, mark, markSupported, read, reset, skip

Methods inherited from class InputStream

nullInputStream, readAllBytes, readNBytes, readNBytes, transferTo

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

XmlInputStream

public XmlInputStream(InputStream in)

Constructs a new XML Input Stream.

Parameters:

in - the base input stream

Method Details

length

public int length()

NB: This is a Troll length (i.e. it goes 1, 2, many) so 2 actually means "at least 2"

Returns:

the length

read

public int read()
         throws IOException

Reads the next byte.

Overrides:

read in class FilterInputStream

Returns:

the byte read

Throws:

IOException - thrown when there is an problem reading

read

public int read(@NonNull byte[] data,
 int offset,
 int length)
         throws IOException

Reads the next length of bytes from the stream into the given byte array at the given offset.

Overrides:

read in class FilterInputStream

Parameters:

data - the buffer to store the data read

offset - the offset in the buffer to start writing

length - the length of data to read

Returns:

the number of bytes read

Throws:

IOException - thrown when there is an issue with the underlying stream

toString

public String toString()

To string implementation.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string representation of the data given and read from the stream.