Add support for a vector to be returned as a ByteBuffer about flatbuffers HOT 3 CLOSED

That's an excellent idea.. I was thinking for convenience we should also be returning arrays, but that makes a copy. I like the idea of using a ByteBuffer instead.
Would it make sense to return IntBuffer/FloatBuffer/etc instead, for more convenient access?

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May be you can start now with returning just ByteBuffer, and the user can convert it as he wants with the ByteBuffer.asXxxBuffer() functions.
You can add the following lines to the file idl_gen_java.cpp inside the "if" after the line 286:

    code += "  public ByteBuffer " + MakeCamel(field.name, false) + "AsByteBuffer(";
    code += offset_prefix;
    code+="(ByteBuffer)(((ByteBuffer)(bb.position(__vector(o)))).slice().limit(__vector_len(o))) : null;}\n";

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