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## java.lang
Interface Readable

All Known Implementing Classes:
  BufferedReader, CharArrayReader, CharBuffer, FileReader, FilterReader, InputStreamReader, LineNumberReader, PipedReader, PushbackReader, Reader, StringReader

    public interface Readable

A `Readable` is a source of characters. Characters from a `Readable` are made available to callers of the read method via a `CharBuffer`.

Since:
  1.5

Method Summary
`int` | `read(CharBuffer cb)` Attempts to read characters into the specified character buffer.

Method Detail

### read

    int read(CharBuffer cb)
             throws IOException

  Attempts to read characters into the specified character buffer. The buffer is used as a repository of characters as-is: the only changes made are the results of a put operation. No flipping or rewinding of the buffer is performed.

  Parameters:
    `cb` - the buffer to read characters into
  Returns:
    @return The number of `char` values added to the buffer, or -1 if this source of characters is at its end
  Throws:
    `IOException` - if an I/O error occurs
    `NullPointerException` - if cb is null
    `ReadOnlyBufferException` - if cb is a read only buffer

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