@node Streams
@section Streams

@menu
* Streams - ANSI Streams::
* Streams - Dictionary::
* Streams - C Reference::
@end menu

@node Streams - ANSI Streams
@subsection ANSI Streams

@menu
* Streams - Supported types::
* Streams - Element types::
* Streams - External formats::
@end menu

@node Streams - Supported types
@subsubsection Supported types
ECL implements all stream types described in ANSI @bibcite{ANSI}. Additionally, when configured with option @code{--enable-clos-streams}, ECL includes a version of Gray streams where any object that implements the appropriate methods (@code{stream-input-p}, @code{stream-read-char}, etc) is a valid argument for the functions that expect streams, such as @code{read}, @code{print}, etc.

@node Streams - Element types
@subsubsection Element types
@lspindex write-char
@lspindex write-sequence
@lspindex read-char
ECL distinguishes between two kinds of streams: character streams and byte streams. @dfn{Character streams} only accept and produce characters, written or read one by one, with @code{write-char} or @code{read-char}, or in chunks, with @code{write-sequence} or any of the Lisp printer functions. Character operations are conditioned by the external format, as described in @ref{Streams - External formats}.

ANSI Common Lisp also supports binary streams. Here input and output is performed in chunks of bits. Binary streams are created with the function open passing as argument a subtype of integer and the implementation is free to round up that integer type to the closest size it supports. In particular ECL rounds up the size to a multiple of a byte. For example, the form @code{(open "foo.bin" :direction :output :element-type '(unsigned-byte 13))}, will open the file @code{foo.bin} for writing, using 16-bit words as the element type.


@node Streams - External formats
@subsubsection External formats
An @dfn{external format} is an encoding for characters that maps character codes to a sequence of bytes, in a one-to-one or one-to-many fashion. External formats are also known as "character encodings" in the programming world and are an essential ingredient to be able to read and write text in different languages and alphabets.

ECL has one of the most complete supports for @emph{external formats}, covering all of the usual codepages from the Windows and Unix world, up to the more recent UTF-8, UCS-2 and UCS-4 formats, all of them with big and small endian variants, and considering different encodings for the newline character.

However, the set of supported external formats depends on the size of the space of character codes. When ECL is built with Unicode support (the default option), it can represent all known characters from all known codepages, and thus all external formats are supported. However, when ECL is built with the restricted character set, it can only use one codepage (the one provided by the C library), with a few variants for the representation of end-of-line characters.

In ECL, an external format designator is defined recursively as either a symbol or a list of symbols. The grammar is as follows

@verbatim
external-format-designator := 
   symbol |
   ( {symbol}+ )
@end verbatim

and the table of known symbols is shown below. Note how some symbols (@code{:cr}, @code{:little-endian}, etc.) just modify other external formats.

@float Table, tab:stream-ext-formats
@caption{Stream external formats}
@multitable @columnfractions .4 .4 .2
@headitem Symbols @tab Codepage or encoding @tab Unicode required
@item @code{:cr} @tab @code{#\Newline} is @code{Carriage Return} @tab No
@item @code{:crlf} @tab @code{#\Newline} is @code{Carriage Return} followed by @code{Linefeed} @tab No
@item @code{:lf} @tab @code{#\Newline} is @code{Linefeed} @tab No
@item @code{:little-endian} @tab Modify UCS to use little-endian encoding. @tab No
@item @code{:big-endian} @tab Modify UCS to use big-endian encoding. @tab No
@item @code{:utf-8 :utf8} @tab Unicode UTF-8 @tab Yes
@item @code{:ucs-2 :ucs2 :utf-16 :utf16 :unicode} @tab UCS-2 encoding with BOM. Defaults to big-endian when writing or if no BOM is detected when reading. @tab Yes
@item @code{:ucs-2le :ucs2le :utf-16le} @tab UCS-2 with little-endian encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:ucs-2be :ucs2be :utf-16be} @tab UCS-2 with big-endian encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:ucs-4 :ucs4 :utf-32 :utf32} @tab UCS-4 encoding with BOM. Defaults to big-endian when writing or if no BOM is detected when reading. @tab Yes
@item @code{:ucs-4le :ucs4le :utf-32le} @tab UCS-4 with little-endian encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:ucs-4be :ucs4be :utf-32be} @tab UCS-4 with big-endian encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-1 :iso8859-1 :latin-1 :cp819 :ibm819} @tab Latin-1 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-2 :iso8859-2 :latin-2 :latin2} @tab Latin-2 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-3 :iso8859-3 :latin-3 :latin3} @tab Latin-3 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-4 :iso8859-4 :latin-4 :latin4} @tab Latin-4 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-5 :cyrillic} @tab Latin-5 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-6 :arabic :asmo-708 :ecma-114} @tab Latin-6 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-7 :greek8 :greek :ecma-118} @tab Greek encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-8 :hebrew} @tab Hebrew encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-9 :latin-5 :latin5} @tab Latin-5 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-10 :iso8859-10 :latin-6 :latin6} @tab Latin-6 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-13 :iso8859-13 :latin-7 :latin7} @tab Latin-7 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-14 :iso8859-14 :latin-8 :latin8} @tab Latin-8 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:iso-8859-15 :iso8859-15 :latin-9 :latin9} @tab Latin-7 encoding @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp437 :ibm-437} @tab IBM CP 437 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp850 :ibm-850 :cp850} @tab Windows CP 850 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp852 :ibm-852} @tab IBM CP 852 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp855 :ibm-855} @tab IBM CP 855 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp860 :ibm-860} @tab IBM CP 860 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp861 :ibm-861} @tab IBM CP 861 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp862 :ibm-862 :cp862} @tab Windows CP 862 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp863 :ibm-863} @tab IBM CP 863 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp864 :ibm-864} @tab IBM CP 864 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp865 :ibm-865} @tab IBM CP 865 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp866 :ibm-866 :cp866} @tab Windows CP 866 @tab Yes
@item @code{:dos-cp869 :ibm-869} @tab IBM CP 869 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp932 :windows-932 :cp932} @tab Windows CP 932 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp936 :windows-936 :cp936} @tab Windows CP 936 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp949 :windows-949 :cp949} @tab Windows CP 949 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp950 :windows-950 :cp950} @tab Windows CP 950 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1250 :windows-1250 :ms-ee} @tab Windows CP 1250 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1251 :windows-1251 :ms-cyrl} @tab Windows CP 1251 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1252 :windows-1252 :ms-ansi} @tab Windows CP 1252 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1253 :windows-1253 :ms-greek} @tab Windows CP 1253 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1254 :windows-1254 :ms-turk} @tab Windows CP 1254 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1255 :windows-1255 :ms-hebr} @tab Windows CP 1255 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1256 :windows-1256 :ms-arab} @tab Windows CP 1256 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1257 :windows-1257 :winbaltrim} @tab Windows CP 1257 @tab Yes
@item @code{:windows-cp1258 :windows-1258} @tab Windows CP 1258 @tab Yes
@end multitable
@end float

@node Streams - Dictionary
@subsection Dictionary

@subsubsection File Stream Extensions

@lspdef open
@defun open filespec &key direction element-type if-exists if-does-not-exist external-format close-on-exec nonblock
Additional options for @clhs{f_open.htm,open} include:
@table @code
@item :close-on-exec
Child processes don't inherit a copy of this stream: new processes
created by @code{fork} and @code{exec} (for example by calling
@coderef{ext:run-program}) close the stream after calling @code{exec}.
Defaults to @code{t}.
@item :nonblock
Open fifos or device files in nonblocking mode. Defaults to @code{nil}.
@end table
These options are ignored on operating systems which do not support them.
@end defun

@lspdef ext:set-buffering-mode
@defun ext:set-buffering-mode stream mode
Control the buffering mode of a stream
@paragraph Synopsis
@table @var
@item stream
an ANSI stream
@item mode
one of @code{nil}, @code{:none}, @code{:line}, @code{:line-buffered}, @code{:full} or @code{:full-buffered}
@item returns
The supplied stream
@end table
@paragraph Description
If @var{mode} is @code{nil} or @code{:none}, @var{stream} will not be
buffered, if it is @code{:line} or @code{:line-buffered} resp.
@code{:full} or @code{:fully-buffered}, @var{stream} will be line resp.
fully buffered. If the stream does not support buffering, nothing will
happen.
@end defun

@lspdef ext:file-stream-fd
@defun ext:file-stream-fd file-stream
Return the POSIX file descriptor of @var{file-stream} as an integer
@end defun

@subsubsection External Format Extensions

@lspdef ext:*default-external-format*
@defvar ext:*default-external-format*
Default external format to use for reading from streams, dealing with
filenames, etc. The default is to use utf-8 encoding if ECL is built
with Unicode support.
@end defvar

@lspdef ext:all-encodings
@defun ext:all-encodings
Return a list of all supported external formats
@end defun

@lspdef ext:character-coding-error
@deftp Condition ext:character-coding-error

Character coding error

@paragraph Class Precedence List
@coderef{ext:character-coding-error}, @code{error}, @code{serious-condition}, @code{condition}, @code{t}

@paragraph Methods
@lspdef ext:character-coding-error-external-format
@defun ext:character-coding-error-external-format condition
@table @var
@item returns
The external format of @var{condition}
@end table
@end defun

@paragraph Description
Superclass of @coderef{ext:character-encoding-error} and @coderef{ext:character-decoding-error}.
@end deftp

@lspdef ext:character-encoding-error
@deftp Condition ext:character-encoding-error

Character encoding error

@paragraph Class Precedence List
@coderef{ext:character-encoding-error}, @coderef{ext:character-coding-error}, @code{error}, @code{serious-condition}, @code{condition}, @code{t}

@paragraph Methods
@lspdef ext:character-encoding-error-code
@defun ext:character-encoding-error-code condition
@table @var
@item returns
The character code of the character, which can't be encoded
@end table
@end defun

@paragraph Description
Condition for characters, which can't be encoded with some external
format.
@end deftp


@lspdef ext:character-decoding-error
@deftp Condition ext:character-decoding-error

Character decoding error

@paragraph Class Precedence List
@coderef{ext:character-decoding-error}, @coderef{ext:character-coding-error}, @code{error}, @code{serious-condition}, @code{condition}, @code{t}

@paragraph Methods
@lspdef ext:character-decoding-error-octects
@defun ext:character-decoding-error-octects condition
@table @var
@item returns
A list of integers with the values of the @code{unsigned char}'s which
can't be decoded.
@end table
@end defun

@paragraph Description
Condition for characters, which can't be decoded with some external
format.
@end deftp

@lspdef ext:stream-encoding-error
@deftp Condition ext:stream-encoding-error

Stream encoding error

@paragraph Class Precedence List
@coderef{ext:stream-encoding-error}, @coderef{ext:character-encoding-error}, @coderef{ext:character-coding-error}, @code{stream-error}, @code{error}, @code{serious-condition}, @code{condition}, @code{t}

@paragraph Description
This condition is signaled when trying to write a character to a
stream, which can't be encoded with the streams external format.
@end deftp


@lspdef ext:stream-decoding-error
@deftp Condition ext:stream-decoding-error

Stream decoding error

@paragraph Class Precedence List
@coderef{ext:stream-decoding-error}, @coderef{ext:character-decoding-error}, @coderef{ext:character-coding-error}, @code{stream-error}, @code{error}, @code{serious-condition}, @code{condition}, @code{t}

@paragraph Description
This condition is signaled when trying to read a character from a
 stream, which can't be decoded with the streams external format.
@end deftp

@lspdef ext:encoding-error
@defun ext:encoding-error stream external-format code
Signal a @coderef{ext:stream-encoding-error} with the given
@var{external-format} and @var{code}. Make a restart available so
that the error can be ignored or the character can be replaced with a
different one.
@end defun

@lspdef ext:decoding-error
@defun ext:decoding-error stream external-format octects
Signal a @coderef{ext:stream-decoding-error} with the given
@var{external-format} and @var{octets}. Make a restart available so
that the error can be ignored or the octets can be replaced with a
character.
@end defun

@subsubsection Sequence Streams

@lspdef ext:sequence-stream
@deftp {System Class} ext:sequence-stream

@paragraph Class Precedence List
@coderef{ext:sequence-stream}, @code{stream}, @code{t}

@paragraph Description
Sequence streams work similar to string streams for vectors. The
supplied vectors that the streams read from or write to must have a
byte sized element type, i.e. @code{(signed-byte 8)},
@code{(unsigned-byte 8)} or @code{base-char}.

The semantics depend on the vector element type and the external
format of the stream. If no external format is supplied and the
element type is an integer type, the stream is a binary stream and
accepts only integers of the same type as the element type of the
vector. Otherwise, the stream accepts both characters and integers and
converts them using the given external format. If the element type is
@code{base-char}, the elements of the vectors are treated as bytes.
This means that writing a character may use multiple elements of the
vector, whose @code{char-code}s will be equal to the values of the
bytes comprising the character in the given external format.
@end deftp

@lspdef ext:make-sequence-input-stream
@defun ext:make-sequence-input-stream vector &key (start 0) (end nil) (external-format nil)
Create a sequence input stream with the subsequence bounded by
@var{start} and @var{end} of the given vector.
@end defun
@lspdef ext:make-sequence-output-stream
@defun ext:make-sequence-output-stream vector &key (external-format nil)
Create a sequence output stream.
@end defun

@exindex Using sequence streams
Example:

Using sequence streams to convert to a UTF8 encoded base string
@lisp
CL-USER> (defvar *output* (make-array 20 :element-type 'base-char :adjustable t :fill-pointer 0))
*OUTPUT*
CL-USER> (defvar *stream* (ext:make-sequence-output-stream *output* :external-format :utf-8))
*STREAM*
CL-USER> (write-string "Spätzle mit Soß'" *stream*)
"Spätzle mit Soß'"
CL-USER> *output*
"SpÃ¤tzle mit SoÃ\237'"
@end lisp

@node Streams - C Reference
@subsection C Reference

@subsubsection ANSI dictionary
Common Lisp and C equivalence

@multitable @columnfractions .3 .7
@headitem Lisp symbol @tab C function
@item @clhs{f_broadc.htm,broadcast-stream-streams} @tab cl_object cl_broadcast_stream_streams(cl_object broadcast_stream)
@item @clhs{f_clear_.htm,clear-input} @tab cl_object cl_clear_input(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_finish.htm,clear-output} @tab cl_object cl_clear_output(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_close.htm,close} @tab cl_object cl_close(cl_narg narg, cl_object stream, ...)
@item @clhs{f_conc_1.htm,concatenated-stream-streams} @tab cl_object cl_concatenated_stream_streams(cl_object concatenated_stream)
@item @clhs{f_echo_s.htm,echo-stream-input-stream} @tab cl_object cl_echo_stream_input_stream(cl_object echo_stream)
@item @clhs{f_echo_s.htm,echo-stream-output-stream} @tab cl_object cl_echo_stream_output_stream(cl_object echo_stream)
@item @clhs{f_file_p.htm,file-length} @tab cl_object cl_file_position(cl_narg narg, cl_object file_stream, ...)
@item @clhs{f_file_s.htm,file-position} @tab cl_object cl_file_position(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_finish.htm,file-string-length} @tab cl_object cl_file_string_length(cl_object stream, cl_object object)
@item @clhs{f_finish.htm,finish-output} @tab cl_object cl_finish_output(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_finish.htm,force-output} @tab cl_object cl_force_output(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_terpri.htm,fresh-line} @tab cl_object cl_fresh_line(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_get_out.htm,get-output-stream-string} @tab cl_object cl_get_output_stream_string(cl_object string_output_stream)
@item @clhs{f_in_stm.htm,input-stream-p} @tab cl_object cl_input_stream_p(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_intera.htm,interactive-stream-p} @tab cl_object cl_interactive_stream_p(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_listen.htm,listen} @tab cl_object cl_listen(cl_narg narg, cl_object stream, ...)
@item @clhs{f_mk_bro.htm,make-broadcast-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_broadcast_stream(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_mk_con.htm,make-concatenated-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_concatenated_stream(cl_narg narg, ....)
@item @clhs{f_mk_ech.htm,make-echo-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_echo_stream(cl_object input, cl_object output)
@item @clhs{f_mk_s_1.htm,make-string-input-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_string_input_stream(cl_narg narg, cl_object string, ...)
@item @clhs{f_mk_s_2.htm,make-string-output-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_string_output_stream(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_mk_two.htm,make-two-way-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_two_way_stream(cl_object input, cl_object output)
@item @clhs{f_mk_syn.htm,make-synonym-stream} @tab cl_object cl_make_synonym_stream(cl_object symbol)
@item @clhs{f_open.htm,open} @tab cl_object cl_open(cl_narg narg, cl_object filespec, ...)
@item @clhs{f_open_s.htm,open-stream-p} @tab cl_object cl_open_stream_p(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_in_stm.htm,output-stream-p} @tab cl_object cl_output_stream_p(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_peek_c.htm,peek-char} @tab cl_object cl_peek_char(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_rd_by.htm,read-byte} @tab cl_object cl_read_byte(cl_narg narg, cl_object stream, ...)
@item @clhs{f_rd_cha.htm,read-char} @tab cl_object cl_read_char(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_rd_c_1.htm,read-char-no-hang} @tab cl_object cl_read_char_no_hang(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_rd_lin.htm,read-line} @tab cl_object cl_read_line(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_rd_seq.htm,read-sequence} @tab cl_object cl_read_sequence(cl_narg narg, cl_object sequence, cl_object stream, ...)
@item @clhs{f_stm_el.htm,stream-element-type} @tab cl_object cl_stream_element_type(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_stm_er.htm,stream-error-stream} @tab [Only in Common Lisp]
@item @clhs{f_stm_ex.htm,stream-external-format} @tab cl_object cl_stream_external_format(cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_stm_ex.htm,(setf stream-external-format)} @tab cl_object si_stream_external_format_set(cl_object stream, cl_object format)
@item @clhs{f_stmp.htm,streamp} @tab cl_object cl_streamp(cl_object object)
@item @clhs{f_syn_st.htm,synonym-stream-symbol} @tab cl_object cl_synonym_stream_symbol(cl_object synonym_stream)
@item @clhs{f_terpri.htm,terpri} @tab cl_object cl_terpri(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_two_wa.htm,two-way-stream-input-stream} @tab cl_object cl_two_way_stream_input_stream(cl_object two_way_stream)
@item @clhs{f_two_wa.htm,two-way-stream-output-stream} @tab cl_object cl_two_way_stream_output_stream(cl_object two_way_stream)
@item @clhs{f_unrd_c.htm,unread-char} @tab cl_object cl_unread_char(cl_narg narg, cl_object character, ...)
@item @clhs{f_wr_by.htm,write-byte} @tab cl_object cl_write_byte(cl_object byte, cl_object stream)
@item @clhs{f_wr_cha.htm,write-char} @tab cl_object cl_write_char(cl_narg narg, cl_object character, ...)
@item @clhs{f_wr_stg.htm,write-line} @tab cl_object cl_write_line(cl_narg narg, cl_object string, ...)
@item @clhs{f_wr_stg.htm,write-string} @tab cl_object cl_write_string(cl_narg narg, cl_object string, ...)
@item @clhs{f_wr_seq.htm,write-sequence} @tab cl_object cl_write_sequence(cl_narg narg, cl_object sequence, cl_object stream, ...)
@item @clhs{f_y_or_n.htm,y-or-n-p} @tab cl_object cl_y_or_n_p(cl_narg narg, ...)
@item @clhs{f_y_or_n.htm,yes-or-no-p} @tab cl_object cl_yes_or_no_p(cl_narg narg, ...)
@end multitable
