bytes, strings: add Reader.Size methods

As noted on recently on golang-nuts, there's currently no way to know
the total size of a strings.Reader or bytes.Reader when using ReadAt
on them. Most callers resort to wrapping it in an io.SectionReader to
retain that information.

The SizeReaderAt abstraction (an io.ReaderAt with a Size() int64
method) has proven useful as a way of expressing a concurrency-safe
read-only number of bytes.

As one example, see http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#49 and
the rest of that presentation for its use in dl.google.com.

SizeReaderAt is also used in the open source google-api-go-client, and
within Google's internal codebase, where it exists in a public package
created in 2013 with the package comment: "These may migrate to the
standard library after we have enough experience with their feel."

I'm still as happy with the SizeReaderAt abstraction and its
composabilty as I was in 2013, so I'd like to make these two Readers
also be SizeReaderAts.

Fixes #9667

Change-Id: Ie6f145ada419dd116280472d8c029f046d5edf70
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3199
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/bytes/reader.go b/src/bytes/reader.go
index d2d40fa7ca..b89d1548f1 100644
--- a/src/bytes/reader.go
+++ b/src/bytes/reader.go
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ func (r *Reader) Len() int {
 	return int(int64(len(r.s)) - r.i)
 }
 
+// Size returns the original length of the underlying byte slice.
+// Size is the number of bytes available for reading via ReadAt.
+// The returned value is always the same and is not affected by calls
+// to any other method.
+func (r *Reader) Size() int64 { return int64(len(r.s)) }
+
 func (r *Reader) Read(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	if len(b) == 0 {
 		return 0, nil