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# DispatchIO.StreamType

The semantics for accessing the contents of a file descriptor.

```
enum StreamType
```

## Topics

### Stream Types

[`DispatchIO.StreamType.stream`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchIO/StreamType/stream)

Access content sequentially, in a stream.

[`DispatchIO.StreamType.random`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchIO/StreamType/random)

Access content randomly.

### Initializing the Type

[`DISPATCH_IO_RANDOM`](/documentation/Dispatch/DISPATCH_IO_RANDOM)

[`DISPATCH_IO_STREAM`](/documentation/Dispatch/DISPATCH_IO_STREAM)

### Expressing the Type

### Hashing Values

### Comparing Types


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