On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 00:36 +0000, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > public PrintStream (OutputStream out, boolean auto_flush, String encoding)
> > throws UnsupportedEncodingException
> > {
> > super (out);
> >
> > + if (out == null || encoding == null)
> > + throw new NullPointerException();
> > +
> > new String(new byte[]{0}, encoding); // check if encoding is
> > supported
> > this.encoding = encoding;
> > this.auto_flush = auto_flush;
> What is the current behaviour? Does it eventually throw an NPE but
> just performs a lot of additional computation first? Or does it throw
> some other error? Or return a bad value?
For encoding, it throws InvalidArgumentException and for out, it doesn't
throw anything.
> The NPEs should have some message as to what went wrong e.g. "The
> specified output stream was null.".
I'll fix that up. Thanks!
