From 94fa7059420793911efd53424d7422e53f5763f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meghan Denny <hello@nektro.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:41:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Readable: add readAlloc

---
 nio.zig | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nio.zig b/nio.zig
index f9c07a4fe028b6d2057086a4031e6f27d0d56738..ff753eb008fe60fe99d633bb133ed914135881fa 100644
--- a/nio.zig
+++ b/nio.zig
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@ pub fn Readable(T: type, this_kind: enum { _var, _const, _bare }) type {
             }
             return error.StreamTooLong;
         }
+
+        pub fn readAlloc(self: Self, allocator: std.mem.Allocator, size: usize) ![]u8 {
+            var array_list = try std.ArrayList(u8).initCapacity(allocator, size);
+            defer array_list.deinit();
+            try array_list.ensureUnusedCapacity(size);
+            const len = try readAll(self, array_list.allocatedSlice());
+            array_list.items.len += len;
+            if (len != size) return error.EndOfStream;
+            return array_list.toOwnedSlice();
+        }
     };
 }
 
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2.54.0