Hi James,
Thank you for the report.
Feel free to create a PR on GitHub.
Gary
On Tue, May 6, 2025, 00:28 James Winters <jwint...@atlassian.com.invalid>
wrote:
> Since 3.17.0, and the new CachedRandomBits implementation, it is no longer
> possible to create random strings longer than about 60M characters. It's
> not exact, as the overflow will happen at a random point depending on the
> number of rejections. The attached test will always generate
> an java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index -268435456 as the int
> wraps around due to rejections
>
> I've got a simple fix and will create an issue and PR if you feel it's
> worth fixing, otherwise I'll document the limit as you should probably
> use org.apache.commons.text.RandomStringGenerator.generate()
> for huge strings.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
> @Test
> public void testHugeStrings() {
> final int expectedLength = 64_000_000;
> final String hugeString = RandomStringUtils.random(expectedLength);
> assertEquals(expectedLength, hugeString.length(),
> "hugeString.length() == expectedLength");
> }
>
