On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I've never used the custom protocol handlers, > only read about them. I have no problem taking the > word of others that there may be difficulties;
Same here. > Let me interject on that thought. Currently > Resource.getInputStream()/.getOutputStream() throw UOE > in the base implementation, without related pre-check > methods as you mention above. It may be a good idea > to add these. If we add them for getURL(), yes, we should be consistent. > The base implementation of these checkers could either return false, > leaving it to the subclasses to override, OR the base implementation > could call the related get...() method; catch any UOE and return > false, or close() the stream if successfully retrieved. I'd keep that simple, i.e. return false; Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
