kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.io/readBytes

readBytes

fun File.readBytes(): ByteArray(source)

Gets the entire content of this file as a byte array.

This method is not recommended on huge files. It has an internal limitation of 2 GB byte array size.

Return

the entire content of this file as a byte array.

fun InputStream.readBytes(): ByteArray(source)

Reads this stream completely into a byte array.

Note: It is the caller's responsibility to close this stream.

Since Kotlin

1.3
fun URL.readBytes(): ByteArray(source)

Reads the entire content of the URL as byte array.

This method is not recommended on huge files.

Return

a byte array with this URL entire content.

fun InputStream.readBytes(estimatedSize: Int = DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE): ByteArray(source)

Deprecated

Warning since 1.3

Error since 1.5

Use readBytes() overload without estimatedSize parameter

Replace with

readBytes()
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Reads this stream completely into a byte array.

Note: It is the caller's responsibility to close this stream.