Add TemporaryBuffer.toString(int limit)

Change-Id: I8603fcdfd0244088b3b217f002a78e7a646ea205
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/TemporaryBuffer.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/TemporaryBuffer.java
index 562eb05dd9..fb893a66f0 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/TemporaryBuffer.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/TemporaryBuffer.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
@@ -213,6 +214,24 @@ public abstract class TemporaryBuffer extends OutputStream {
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Convert first {@code limit} number of bytes of the buffer content to
+	 * String.
+	 *
+	 * @param limit
+	 *            the maximum number of bytes to be converted to String
+	 * @return first {@code limit} number of bytes of the buffer content
+	 *         converted to String.
+	 * @since 5.12
+	 */
+	public String toString(int limit) {
+		try {
+			return RawParseUtils.decode(toByteArray(limit));
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Convert this buffer's contents into a contiguous byte array. If this size
 	 * of the buffer exceeds the limit only return the first {@code limit} bytes
 	 * <p>