Encode and Decode in Memory (Feature request) (General questions)

by D Waters, Monday, November 27, 2006, 20:27 (6570 days ago)

WodMailbox has two paticularly objects I regularly use, 'Decoder' and 'Encoder'. However, the only options for the various Methods supplied is to provide an 'InFile' and 'OutFile'. Would it be possible for you to provide an option to do this in memory? I am using this with an application where everything is in a database. It adds extra steps to extract the data from a database into memory, store to a file, and then read from a file back into memory. I would prefer to be able to extract from DB in memory, and process it with the Encode/Decode methods in memory.

Is this easy enough an option to add? with the option to pass the String or Byte Array data in memory, and also to have the result returned in memory. It would be needed across all Encode and Decode methods (Base64,BinHex4,QuotedPrintable,Uudecode).

I actually run into this need across several of the fine components of yours that I use - where my only option is to store to file, or read from file - when I would prefer to work in memory only, and not require the file system for data manipulation (The WebServer control is one example).

Thanks for making such a great product