InputStreamSlowMultibyteRead
Please also override int read(byte[], int, int), otherwise multi-byte reads from this input stream are likely to be slow.

Severity
WARNING
Tags
Performance

The problem

java.io.InputStream defines a single abstract method: int read(), which subclasses implement to return bytes from the logical input stream.

However, in most circumstances, readers from InputStreams use higher-level methods like read(byte[], int offset, int length) to read multiple bytes at a time into a buffer. The default implementation of this method is to repeatedly call read(). However, most InputStream implementations could do much better if they can read multiple bytes at once (at the very least, avoiding unneeded byte -> int -> byte casts that are needed when implementing the read() method over an underlying byte source).

The class in question implements int read() without also overriding int read(byte[], int, int) and will thus be subject to the costs associated with the default behavior of the multibyte read method.

Suppression

Suppress false positives by adding the suppression annotation @SuppressWarnings("InputStreamSlowMultibyteRead") to the enclosing element.