src/ProtocolBuffers/MessageStreamWriter.cs

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using System.IO;

namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Writes multiple messages to the same stream. Each message is written
    /// as if it were an element of a repeated field 1 in a larger protocol buffer.
    /// This class takes no ownership of the stream it is given; it never closes the
    /// stream.
    /// </summary>
    public sealed class MessageStreamWriter<T> where T : IMessage<T>
    {
        private readonly CodedOutputStream codedOutput;

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates an instance which writes to the given stream.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="output">Stream to write messages to.</param>
        public MessageStreamWriter(Stream output)
        {
            codedOutput = CodedOutputStream.CreateInstance(output);
        }

        public void Write(T message)
        {
            codedOutput.WriteMessage(1, message);
        }

        public void Flush()
        {
            codedOutput.Flush();
        }
    }
}