Class ReadAheadInputStream

Object
java.io.InputStream
org.apache.spark.io.ReadAheadInputStream
All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, AutoCloseable

public class ReadAheadInputStream extends InputStream
InputStream implementation which asynchronously reads ahead from the underlying input stream when specified amount of data has been read from the current buffer. It does it by maintaining two buffers - active buffer and read ahead buffer. Active buffer contains data which should be returned when a read() call is issued. The read ahead buffer is used to asynchronously read from the underlying input stream and once the current active buffer is exhausted, we flip the two buffers so that we can start reading from the read ahead buffer without being blocked in disk I/O.