public int readString()

in src/main/java/com/alibaba/com/caucho/hessian/io/HessianInput.java [697:763]
59 lines of code
21 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public int readString(char[] buffer, int offset, int length)
            throws IOException {
        int readLength = 0;

        if (_chunkLength == END_OF_DATA) {
            _chunkLength = 0;
            return -1;
        } else if (_chunkLength == 0) {
            int tag = read();

            switch (tag) {
                case 'N':
                    return -1;

                case 'S':
                case 's':
                case 'X':
                case 'x':
                    _isLastChunk = tag == 'S' || tag == 'X';
                    _chunkLength = (read() << 8) + read();
                    break;

                default:
                    throw new IOException("expected 'S' at " + (char) tag);
            }
        }

        while (length > 0) {
            if (_chunkLength > 0) {
                buffer[offset++] = (char) parseUTF8Char();
                _chunkLength--;
                length--;
                readLength++;
            } else if (_isLastChunk) {
                if (readLength == 0)
                    return -1;
                else {
                    _chunkLength = END_OF_DATA;
                    return readLength;
                }
            } else {
                int tag = read();

                switch (tag) {
                    case 'S':
                    case 's':
                    case 'X':
                    case 'x':
                        _isLastChunk = tag == 'S' || tag == 'X';
                        _chunkLength = (read() << 8) + read();
                        break;

                    default:
                        throw new IOException("expected 'S' at " + (char) tag);
                }
            }
        }

        if (readLength == 0)
            return -1;
        else if (_chunkLength > 0 || !_isLastChunk)
            return readLength;
        else {
            _chunkLength = END_OF_DATA;
            return readLength;
        }
    }