Fun I/O

Fun I/O provides functional programming patterns and high level abstractions for simple and reusable synchronous I/O. Fun I/O supports Java 8 or later and Scala 2.10, 2.11, 2.12 and 2.13 equally well via dedicated APIs and is covered by the Apache License, version 2.0.

# Introduction

Fun I/O composes the low level classes InputStream and OutputStream et al into powerful, high level abstractions like Codec, Source, Sink, Store, ArchiveStore, Socket, Filter et al. These abstractions are:

Easy to use and implement.
Stateless by design and therefore reusable and thread-safe (except for their observable side effects of course, e.g. writing data to a file).
Composable into stateless I/O subsystems.
Interoperable with any code which deals with an InputStream or OutputStream directly.

Fun I/O takes proper care of resource management: All created InputStream and OutputStream instances are properly closed, even if there is an exception in a nested constructor. Say goodbye to resource leaks and try-with-resources statements!