What exactly is/means "System.IO.Stream+NullStream"?

Matthias Güntert

I am currently experimenting to find the proper way of creating an HTTP context for unit testing purposes. While examining the stream types created, I was surprised that the following returns a type of System.IO.Stream+NullStream.

var context = new DefaultHttpContext();

var requestBodyType = context.Request.Body.GetType().FullName; 
var responseBodyType = context.Response.Body.GetType().FullName; 

If the test case requires it, I'd simply replace the stream with a MemoryStream and then act upon it accordingly.

var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
var context = new DefaultHttpContext(); 
context.Response.Body = memoryStream;

So far so good. But what exactly is System.IO.Stream+NullStream? I would have expected to find a type of NullStream in the documentation, but couldn't find such a thing.

canton7

It's an internal type.

It sub-classes Stream, and is exposed as Stream.Null.

As you can see from the implementation, it just throws away any data written to it, and doesn't return any data if asked.

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