ADPCM: encoder now using byte writer instead of returning byte slices

stream/adpcm/adpcm.go

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ import (
 // pred and index hold state that persists between calls to encodeSample and calcHead.
 // dest is the output, ie. where the encoded ADPCM data is written to.
 type Encoder struct {
-	dest  io.Writer
+	dest  io.ByteWriter
 	pred  int16
 	index int16
 }
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ type Encoder struct {
 // pred, index, and step hold state that persists between calls to decodeSample.
 // dest is the output, ie. where the decoded PCM data is written to.
 type Decoder struct {
-	dest  io.Writer
+	dest  io.ByteWriter
 	pred  int16
 	index int16
 	step  int16
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ var stepTable = []int16{
 }
 
 // NewEncoder retuns a new ADPCM encoder.
-func NewEncoder(dst io.Writer) *Encoder {
+func NewEncoder(dst io.ByteWriter) *Encoder {
 	e := Encoder{
 		dest: dst,
 	}
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func NewEncoder(dst io.Writer) *Encoder {
 }
 
 // NewDecoder retuns a new ADPCM decoder.
-func NewDecoder(dst io.Writer) *Decoder {
+func NewDecoder(dst io.ByteWriter) *Decoder {
 	d := Decoder{
 		step: stepTable[0],
 		dest: dst,
@@ -203,48 +203,47 @@ func capAdd16(a, b int16) int16 {
 	}
 }
 
-func (e *Encoder) calcHead(sample []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+func (e *Encoder) calcHead(sample []byte) error {
 	// check that we are given 1 16-bit sample (2 bytes)
 	sampSize := 2
 	if len(sample) != sampSize {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("length of given byte array is: %v, expected: %v", len(sample), sampSize)
+		return fmt.Errorf("length of given byte array is: %v, expected: %v", len(sample), sampSize)
 	}
 
 	intSample := int16(binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(sample))
 	e.encodeSample(intSample)
 
-	head := make([]byte, 2, 4)
-	head[0] = sample[0]
-	head[1] = sample[1]
+	e.dest.WriteByte(sample[0])
+	e.dest.WriteByte(sample[1])
 
-	head = append(head, byte(uint16(e.index)))
-	head = append(head, byte(0x00))
-	return head, nil
+	e.dest.WriteByte(byte(uint16(e.index)))
+	e.dest.WriteByte(byte(0x00))
+	return nil
 }
 
 // EncodeBlock takes a slice of 1010 bytes (505 16-bit PCM samples).
 // It returns a byte slice containing encoded (compressed) ADPCM nibbles (each byte contains two nibbles).
-func (e *Encoder) EncodeBlock(block []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+func (e *Encoder) EncodeBlock(block []byte) error {
 	bSize := 1010
 	if len(block) != bSize {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unsupported block size. Given: %v, expected: %v, ie. 505 16-bit PCM samples", len(block), bSize)
+		return fmt.Errorf("unsupported block size. Given: %v, expected: %v, ie. 505 16-bit PCM samples", len(block), bSize)
 	}
 
-	result, err := e.calcHead(block[0:2])
+	err := e.calcHead(block[0:2])
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return err
 	}
 
 	for i := 2; i < len(block); i++ {
 		if (i+1)%4 == 0 {
 			sample2 := e.encodeSample(int16(binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(block[i-1 : i+1])))
 			sample := e.encodeSample(int16(binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(block[i+1 : i+3])))
-			result = append(result, byte((sample<<4)|sample2))
+			e.dest.WriteByte(byte((sample << 4) | sample2))
 
 		}
 	}
 
-	return result, nil
+	return nil
 }
 
 // DecodeBlock takes a slice of 256 bytes, each byte should contain two ADPCM encoded nibbles.

stream/adpcm/adpcm_test.go

@@ -47,15 +47,14 @@ func TestEncodeBlock(t *testing.T) {
 	inBSize := 1010
 	numBlocks := len(pcm) / inBSize
 	outBSize := int(float64(inBSize)/4 + 3.5) // compression is 4:1 and 3.5 bytes of info are added to each block
-	comp := make([]byte, 0, outBSize*numBlocks)
-	enc := NewEncoder(nil)
+	comp := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, outBSize*numBlocks))
+	enc := NewEncoder(comp)
 	for i := 0; i < numBlocks; i++ {
 		block := pcm[inBSize*i : inBSize*(i+1)]
-		encBlock, err := enc.EncodeBlock(block)
+		err := enc.EncodeBlock(block)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		comp = append(comp, encBlock...)
 	}
 
 	//read expected adpcm file
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ func TestEncodeBlock(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("Unable to read expected ADPCM file: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	if !bytes.Equal(comp, exp) {
+	if !bytes.Equal(comp.Bytes(), exp) {
 		t.Error("ADPCM generated does not match expected ADPCM")
 	}
 }