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+/*
+ * Copyright 2008 ETH Zuerich, CISD
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package ch.systemsx.cisd.common.process;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore;
+
+import ch.systemsx.cisd.common.exceptions.EnvironmentFailureException;
+
+/**
+ * This class uses an internal worker thread to constantly consume input from specified
+ * {@link InputStream}.
+ * <p>
+ * When it is finished, you can get the lines with {@link #getLines()}.
+ * </p>
+ * 
+ * @author Christian Ribeaud
+ */
+public final class InputStreamReaderGobbler
+{
+
+    private final Semaphore waitForReadingFinishedSemaphore = new Semaphore(1);
+
+    private final List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
+
+    public InputStreamReaderGobbler(final InputStream stream) throws InterruptedException
+    {
+        waitForReadingFinishedSemaphore.acquire();
+        final Thread t = new Thread()
+            {
+
+                //
+                // Thread
+                //
+
+                @Override
+                public final void run()
+                {
+                    try
+                    {
+                        final BufferedReader reader =
+                                new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
+                        String line;
+                        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
+                        {
+                            lines.add(line);
+                        }
+                    } catch (IOException ex)
+                    {
+                        throw new EnvironmentFailureException("Couldn't gobble stream content", ex);
+                    } finally
+                    {
+                        waitForReadingFinishedSemaphore.release();
+                    }
+                }
+            };
+        t.start();
+    }
+
+    public final List<String> getLines() throws InterruptedException
+    {
+        waitForReadingFinishedSemaphore.acquire();
+        try
+        {
+            return lines;
+        } finally
+        {
+            waitForReadingFinishedSemaphore.release();
+        }
+    }
+
+}
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