Sorry, posted to wrong list (commons user) originally. Please continue any further discussion here - thanks!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> Date: 28 Mar 2009 12:49 Subject: Re: [COMPRESS] change IOUtils.copy() to return number of bytes copied? To: Commons Users List <[email protected]> > IOUtils.copy() currently returns void. > If it were changed to return a long of the number of bytes actually > copied, then it could be used in the ArchiveInputStream test cases to > check that the EOF was reached after the correct number of bytes. E.g. > that would show whether any padding was being accidentally included. > > The only use of the class in the main code is in the ChangeSet class, > but of course that does not have to use the return value, and the > "wasted" code would be minimal. > > WDYT? I think this would make sense and feels more consistent. InputStream.read() returns the number of read bytes. If copy() would do the same, this feels good to me. Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
