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#endregion
using System;
using System.IO;
using CSharpTest.Net.Interfaces;

namespace CSharpTest.Net.IO
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A memory stream that can be cloned to create an instance for another thread to access
    /// the same memory pool.  
    /// </summary>
    public class SharedMemoryStream : SegmentedMemoryStream, ICloneable, IFactory<Stream>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a memory stream that uses 32k segments for storage
        /// </summary>
        public SharedMemoryStream()
            : base(short.MaxValue)
        { }
        /// <summary>
        /// Create a memory stream that uses the specified size of segments
        /// </summary>
        public SharedMemoryStream(int segmentSize) 
            : base(segmentSize)
        { }

        /// <summary> Creates a 'clone' of the stream sharing the same contents </summary>
        public SharedMemoryStream(SharedMemoryStream from)
            : base(Check.NotNull(from))
        { }
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a 'clone' of this stream so that the two instances act independantly upon a single set of data
        /// </summary>
        public SharedMemoryStream Clone() { return new SharedMemoryStream(this); }
        object ICloneable.Clone() { return Clone(); }
        Stream IFactory<Stream>.Create() { return Clone(); }
    }
}