Method CanRead

Namespace: DocWright.Formats.Text

Assembly: DocWright.Formats.Text.dll

CanRead(Stream)

Always returns false: plain text is never auto-detected.

public bool CanRead(Stream stream)

Parameters

stream Stream: The seekable stream, examined only to validate the argument.

Returns

bool: false, always.

Remarks

This is a deliberate refusal, not an omission, and it is the one place this package departs from the phase's exit criteria — so it is stated here rather than left to be discovered.

Every byte sequence is valid plain text. A sniff that returned true for anything decodable would claim every stream no other reader recognized: a truncated DOCX, a corrupt .doc, a PNG someone renamed. The caller would get a document full of mojibake instead of the InvalidDocumentException that tells them what actually happened, and no amount of heuristic tuning fixes that, because the heuristic would be deciding a question the bytes do not answer.

Plain text is therefore reached explicitly: by the .txt or .text extension, which the registry resolves without consulting this method, or by passing FormatDetection.Text. Both are tested.

Exceptions