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== The Stream Mystery ==

Streams are one of the things that are pretty confusing to me in the Mozilla/XPCOM code base. Today it happened again. So I set down to demystify this stream mystery. 

As a starter I listed the variety of stream related interfaces. I have listed only the input streams. For most items listed here there is a output stream counterpart. 

== List of Stream Interfaces ==

*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIInputStream.idl nsIInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIAsyncInputStream.idl nsIAsyncInputStream]
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIBinaryInputStream.idl nsIBinaryInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIConverterInputStream.idl nsIConverterInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIInputStreamTee.idl nsIInputStreamTee] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsILineInputStream.idl nsILineInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIMultiplexInputStream.idl nsIMultiplexInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIObjectInputStream.idl nsIObjectInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIScriptableInputStream.idl nsIScriptableInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsISeekableStream.idl nsISeekableStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIStorageStream.idl nsIStorageStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIStringStream.idl nsIStringStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIUnicharInputStream.idl nsIUnicharInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/io/nsIUnicharLineInputStream.idl nsIUnicharLineInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/public/nsIBufferedStreams.idl nsIBufferedInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/public/nsIFileStreams.idl nsIFileInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/public/nsIMIMEInputStream.idl nsIMIMEInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/plugin/base/public/nsIPluginInputStream.idl nsIPluginInputStream] 
*[http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/libpr0n/public/imgIEncoder.idl imgIEncoder]