12.21. Binary Source Readers

A binary source reader is a reader for a binary data source. Your reader should implement the org.milyn.delivery.StreamReader interface. This is just a marker interface that tells the Smooks runtime to ensure that an InputStream is supplied.

The binary Reader implementation is essentially the same as a non-binary Reader implementation (see above), except that the implementation of the parse method should use the InputStream from the InputSource (i.e. call InputSource.getByteStream() instead of InputSource.getCharacterStream()) and generate the XML events from the decoded binary data.