On 8/8/06, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> I need a consultation: should we follow RI or spec in the case of issue
> 1100?
>
I think we shall follow RI for this this problem. Because the behavior
of RI is reasonable though it seems that it is not compliant with Spec.
If we decide to throw NPE, maybe some use applications would break.
OK, I'll prepare patch if nobody objects.
Thanks, Vladimir
Thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Richard
> Thanks, Vladimir
>
>
> On 8/8/06, Vladimir Ivanov (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> [classlib][io] compatibility: Harmony method
>> DataOutputStream(null).writeBytes("") throws NPE while RI does not
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Key: HARMONY-1100
>> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1100
>> Project: Harmony
>> Issue Type: Bug
>> Components: Classlib
>> Reporter: Vladimir Ivanov
>>
>>
>> The spec says for the java.io package: "Unless otherwise noted,
>> passing a
>> null argument to a constructor or method in any class or interface in
>> this
>> package will cause a NullPointerException to be thrown".
>> and says nothing about 'null' for DataOutputStream constructor.
>> So, according to spec the DataOutputStream(null) should lead to the
NPE
>> instead of writeBytes but according to RI no NPE for constructor and
>> zero-length string for writeBytes.
>>
>> =================== test.java =========================
>> import java.io.DataOutputStream;
>>
>> public class test {
>> public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
>> System.out.println("res = " + new DataOutputStream(null));
>> new DataOutputStream(null).writeBytes("");
>> System.out.println("OK");
>> }
>> }
>> ===================================================
>>
>> Output:
>> C:\tmp\tmp17>C:\jrockit-jdk1.5.0-windows-ia32\bin\java.exe -cp .
>> -showversion test
>> java version "1.5.0"
>> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-b64)
>> BEA WebLogic JRockit(R) (build dra-38972-20041208-2001-win-ia32,
>> R25.0.0-75, GC: System optimized over throughput (initial strategy
>> singleparpar))
>>
>> res = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> OK
>>
>> C:\tmp\tmp17>C:\harmony\trunk_0427\deploy\jdk\jre\bin\java.exe -cp .
>> -showversion test
>> java version 1.5 (subset)
>>
>> (c) Copyright 1991, 2006 The Apache Software Foundation or its
>> licensors,
>> as applicable.
>> res = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at java.io.DataOutputStream.writeBytes(DataOutputStream.java
:163)
>> at test.main(test.java:6)
>>
>>
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Richard Liang
China Software Development Lab, IBM
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