.NET-Community-Toolkit/CommunityToolkit.HighPerformance/Extensions/ArrayPoolBufferWriterExtensions.cs

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using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using CommunityToolkit.HighPerformance.Buffers;
using CommunityToolkit.HighPerformance.Streams;

namespace CommunityToolkit.HighPerformance;

/// <summary>
/// Helpers for working with the <see cref="ArrayPoolBufferWriter{T}"/> type.
/// </summary>
public static class ArrayPoolBufferWriterExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Returns a <see cref="Stream"/> that can be used to write to a target an <see cref="ArrayPoolBufferWriter{T}"/> of <see cref="byte"/> instance.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="writer">The target <see cref="ArrayPoolBufferWriter{T}"/> instance.</param>
    /// <returns>A <see cref="Stream"/> wrapping <paramref name="writer"/> and writing data to its underlying buffer.</returns>
    /// <remarks>The returned <see cref="Stream"/> can only be written to and does not support seeking.</remarks>
    [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
    public static Stream AsStream(this ArrayPoolBufferWriter<byte> writer)
    {
        return new IBufferWriterStream<ArrayBufferWriterOwner>(new ArrayBufferWriterOwner(writer));
    }
}