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allow IO write to write memoryview object without copying or add IO#write_memoryview

dsisnero opened this issue · comments

as seen on rubybugs #17832 -

IO#write() - arguments that are not a string will be converted to string using to_s
want IO#write to be able to write memoryview objects without conversion to string

require` 'fiddle'
include Fiddle
ptr = Fiddle::Pointer['this is a string']
mv = MemoryView.new ptr
mv.byte_size  #17802 
mv[0]  # 116
'this is a string'.bytes[0] = 116
File.open('test.txt', 'wb'){ f.write mv}
contents = File.open('test.txt', 'r'){ |f| f.read}  # contents is  "#<Fiddle::MemoryView:0x000001a75ae76258>" not 'this is a string'

buffer = ByteBuffer.new('this is a string')
File.open('test.txt', 'w'){|f| f.write Fiddle::MemoryView.new(buffer)}

allow IO#write to write memoryview objects without converting to string or add a new method on IO to write memoryview objects without converting to string

Thanks for your report.
We can do this now. Fiddle::MemoryView#to_s returns a String but it doesn't copy underlying data.