The purpose is for the implementation of BLOB/CLOB (and potentially other types whose value is represented by a stream), for which their size makes it impossible or very expensive to materialize the value.
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| public InputStream |
| cloneStream | back to summary |
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| public InputStream cloneStream() Clone the stream. To be used when a "deep" clone of a stream is required rather than multiple references to the same stream. The resulting clone should support reads, resets, closes which do not affect the original stream source of the clone.
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