readText

fun Input.readText(out: Appendable, charset: Charset = Charsets.UTF_8, max: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE): Int

Reads at most max characters decoding bytes with specified charset. Extra character bytes will remain unconsumed

number of characters copied to out

fun Input.readText(charset: Charset = Charsets.UTF_8, max: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE): String

fun Buffer.readText(charset: Charset = Charsets.UTF_8, max: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE): String

Reads at most max characters decoding bytes with specified charset. Extra character bytes will remain unconsumed

a decoded string

fun Input.~~readText~~(decoder: CharsetDecoder, max: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE): String

Use CharsetDecoder.decode instead

import io.ktor.utils.io.charsets.decode

decoder.decode(this, max)

Reads at most max characters decoding bytes with specified decoder. Extra character bytes will remain unconsumed

a decoded string