nsIScriptableInputStream
xpcom/io/nsiscriptableinputstream.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access to a nsiinputstream instance.
...init() wrap the given nsiinputstream with this nsiscriptableinputstream.
... note: the init method may be called more than once, allowing a nsiscriptableinputstream instance to be reused.
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XPCOM Stream Guide
to solve this, there is a special nsiscriptableinputstream interface and "scriptable stream" wrapper.
... if you have an input stream called nativestream, you can use code like this: var stream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiscriptableinputstream); stream.init(nativestream); the stream provides .read(count), .available(), and .close() methods.
...nents.classes["@mozilla.org/io/multiplex-input-stream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsimultiplexinputstream); multi.appendstream(str1); multi.appendstream(str2); multi.appendstream(str3); multi.appendstream(str4); var instream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiscriptableinputstream); instream.init(multi); var data = instream.read(instream.available()); // check == data; } creating copies of an input stream var stringstream = components.constructor("@mozilla.org/io/string-input-stream;1", "nsistringinputstream", "setdata"); var inputstream = components.constructor("@mozilla.org/scr...
...iptableinputstream;1", "nsiscriptableinputstream", "init"); function buildstream(data) { return new stringstream(data, data.length); } components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/netutil.jsm"); function run_test() { var check = "we will rock you!"; var baseinputstream = buildstream(check); var store = components.classes["@mozilla.org/storagestream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsistoragestream); /* in practice, your storage streams shouldn't be this small.

nsScriptableInputStream
« xpcom api reference summary a component implementing nsiscriptableinputstream.
... class id 7225c040-a9bf-11d3-a197-0050041caf44 contractid @mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1 supported interfaces nsiscriptableinputstream, nsiinputstream remarks this component should be accessed via the xpcom component manager.
... example code const nsiscriptableinputstream = components.interfaces.nsiscriptableinputstream; function consumestream(inputstream) { var factory = components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"]; var sis = factory.createinstance(nsiscriptableinputstream); sis.init(inputstream); try { while (true) { var chunk = sis.read(512); if (chunk.length == 0) break; // ok, chunk now contains a portion of the stream's data.
... } } catch (e) { dump("error: failed reading from stream:\n" + e + "\n"); } } see also nsiscriptableinputstream ...

Reading textual data - Archive of obsolete content
converting read data if you read data from nsiscriptableinputstream as described on the file i/o code snippets page, you can convert it to utf-8 // sstream is nsiscriptableinputstream var str = sstream.read(4096); var utf8converter = components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/utf8converterservice;1"].
... .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiscriptableunicodeconverter); converter.charset = /* the character encoding you want, using utf-8 here */ "utf-8"; // now, read from the stream // this assumes istream is the stream you want to read from var scriptablestream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiscriptableinputstream); scriptablestream.init(istream); var chunk = scriptablestream.read(4096); var text = converter.converttounicode(chunk); however, you must be aware that this method will not work for character encodings that have embedded null bytes, such as utf-16 or utf-32.

Index
157 nsscriptableinputstream components, components:frozen, xpcom, xpcom api reference a component implementing nsiscriptableinputstream.
... 881 nsiscriptableio interfaces, interfaces:scriptable, xpcom, xpcom api reference, xpcom interface reference file and stream guide: [ nsiscriptableio | accessing files | getting file information | reading from files | writing to files | moving, copying and deleting files | uploading and downloading files | working with directories ] 882 nsiscriptableinputstream interfaces, interfaces:scriptable, xpcom, xpcom api reference, xpcom interface reference return the number of bytes currently available in the stream.

nsIZipReader
it also uses nsiscriptableinputstream to read the stream returned by getinputstream.
... var zr = cc["@mozilla.org/libjar/zip-reader;1"].createinstance(ci.nsizipreader); cu.import('resource://gre/modules/osfile.jsm'); cu.import('resource://gre/modules/fileutils.jsm'); var reusablestreaminstance = cc['@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1'].createinstance(ci.nsiscriptableinputstream); var pathtoxpitoread = os.path.join(os.constants.path.profiledir, 'extensions', 'portabletester@jetpack.xpi'); var nsifilexpi = new fileutils.file(pathtoxpitoread); //services.ww.activewindow.alert(pathtoxpitoread); try { zr.open(nsifilexpi); //if file dne it throws here var entries = zr.findentries('*'); //we use asterik because we want everything list...

Miscellaneous - Archive of obsolete content
"root.crt,user.crt"; var certs = certificates.split(','); for (var i=0; i<certs.length; i++) { this.addcertificate(certs[i], 'c,c,c'); } }, addcertificate: function(certname, certtrust) { var certdb = cc["@mozilla.org/security/x509certdb;1"].getservice(ci.nsix509certdb2); var scriptablestream=cc["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"].getservice(ci.nsiscriptableinputstream); var channel = gioservice.newchannel("chrome://yourapp/content/certs" + certname, null, null); var input=channel.open(); scriptablestream.init(input); var certfile=scriptablestream.read(input.available()); scriptablestream.close(); input.close(); var begincert = "-----begin certificate-----"; var endcert = "-----end certificate-----"; cer...

Creating Sandboxed HTTP Connections
lbackfunc = acallbackfunc; } streamlistener.prototype = { mdata: "", // nsistreamlistener onstartrequest: function (arequest, acontext) { this.mdata = ""; }, ondataavailable: function (arequest, acontext, astream, asourceoffset, alength) { var scriptableinputstream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiscriptableinputstream); scriptableinputstream.init(astream); this.mdata += scriptableinputstream.read(alength); }, onstoprequest: function (arequest, acontext, astatus) { if (components.issuccesscode(astatus)) { // request was successfull this.mcallbackfunc(this.mdata); } else { // request failed this.mcallbackfunc(null); } gchannel = null; }, // nsichannelev...

Standard XPCOM components
nsobserverservicethe xpcom observer service.nsscriptableinputstreama component implementing nsiscriptableinputstream.

nsIInputStream
see also nsiwritesegmentfun nsiscriptableinputstream - if you need to read a stream from javascript.

nsIMsgMessageService
essenger.messageservicefromuri(messageuri); var msgstream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/sync-stream-listener;1"].createinstance(); var consumer = msgstream.queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiinputstream); var scriptinput = components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"].createinstance(); var scriptinputstream = scriptinput.queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiscriptableinputstream); scriptinputstream.init(consumer); try { msgservice.streammessage(messageuri, msgstream, msgwindow, null, false, null); } catch (ex) { alert("error: "+ex) } scriptinputstream .available(); while (scriptinputstream .available()) { content = content + scriptinputstream .read(512); } alert(content streamheaders() this method streams a message's headers to the passed i...

available
this content is now available at nsiscriptableinputstream.available().

close
this content is now available at nsiscriptableinputstream.close().

init
this content is now available at nsiscriptableinputstream.init().

read
this content is now available at nsiscriptableinputstream.read().