A source of Ion data (text or binary) to load into memory.
A Value object representing the first value found in the stream or null if the stream is empty.
Reads the provided Ion data source into memory, constructing Value objects to represent each value found in the stream.
This approach to reading is less efficient at runtime than using the streaming Reader API (next(), stepIn(), stepOut(), etc), but is often much simpler to use.
If ionData is a ReaderBuffer, a new Reader will be created to process it.
If it is already a Reader, it will be consumed fully.
If ionData does not contain any values, an empty array will be returned.
A source of Ion data (text or binary) to load into memory.
An array of Value objects representing the values found in the stream.
Reads the first value from the provided Ion data source into memory, constructing a Value object to represent it.
This approach to reading is less efficient at runtime than using the streaming Reader API (next(), stepIn(), stepOut(), etc), but is often much simpler to use.
If
ionDatais a ReaderBuffer, a new Reader will be created to process it. IfionDatais already a Reader, it will be used as-is.loadwill check to see if the Reader is already positioned over a value. If it is, that value will be loaded. If it is not,loadwill callnext()once.If no value is found,
loadwill return null.