Overrides Stream

This method reads a specified amount of characters from the current instance, advances the position within the stream, and populates the character array buffer.

Declaration

// C#
public override int Read(char[] buffer, int offset, int count);

Parameters

• buffer

  The character array buffer to be populated.

• offset

  The zero-based offset (in characters) in the buffer at which the buffer is populated.

• count

  The maximum amount of characters to be read from the stream.

Return Value

The return value indicates the number of characters read from the stream or 0 if the end of the stream has been reached.

Exceptions

ObjectDisposedException - The object is already disposed.

InvalidOperationException - The OracleConnection is not open or has been closed during the lifetime of the object.

Remarks

This method requires that the Position on the stream instance be zero or an even number.

The XML data is read starting from the position specified by the Position property.