On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:42:50PM +1000, Peter Donald wrote: > > Finally got around to committing it. I have removed the return statements. If > we need to we can put them back. Putting them back in is backwards compatible > but removing them would not be ;)
Excellent. I've fully come round to yours' and Leo's way of thinking. Here's a good article that convinced me: http://www.unixreview.com/articles/1998/9804/9804ja/ja.htm But having said that, I have a Cunning Plan (tm) to avoid the close() problems while still keeping the ease of use that a return variable allows. I'll leave that for another mail. > PS I am glad to see I am not the only one who still uses GNU style standards > ;) (old emacs user???) Nup, sorry, you're the only one ;) I've had it drummed into me that 'Thou Shalt use the Coding Conventions of the Previous Author' ;) --Jeff > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:41, jeff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In a dark corner of Excalibur lies a rather unexciting class called > > IOUtils.java. It lets you copy between InputStreams and OutputStreams, > > cleanly shut down streams, and that's it. > > > > Over the last week I have ruthlessly expanded it's functionality, such > > that there are now methods to copy from (InputStream|Reader|String) to > > (OutputStream|Writer|String), with variants to select the buffer size > > and (where appropriate) the byte->char encoding. > > > > Example uses: > > > > // Read text from a file to a String > > String s = IOUtil.toString( new FileReader("foo.txt") ); > > > > // Copy the jakarta home page to a File: > > IOUtil.copy( > > new URL("http://jakarta.apache.org";).openStream(), > > new FileOutputStream("index.html") > > ).close(); > > > > etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
