Ryan,
Thanks, nice research/write up. [I am copying Gump to keep a centralized
archive, and I'll try to post a blog entry once complete.]
So, theoretically the new code will still run against codec 1.12 (no
signatures have explicitly changed), it just won't compile against it (seems
reasonable). If this exception really is meaningless, and not thrown, no
effect ought be felt to anybody other than developers/builders, right?
Thanks for doing this. Hopefully an xmlrpc committer (with a CLA ;-) can
perform the change. XMLRPC has dependees that would benefit from Gump
coverage:
http://brutus.apache.org:8080/gump/ws-xmlrpc/ws-xmlrpc/details.html#Project+Dependees
and lots of knock on dependees:
http://brutus.apache.org:8080/gump/ws-xmlrpc/ws-xmlrpc/details.html#Full+Project+Dependees
regards,
Adam
- Original Message -
From: Ryan Hoegg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [codec] base64Codec.decode and DecoderException
Hello,
I saw your message on commons-dev and made a mental note to look into
it, since I incorporated Base64 from commons-codec about a year ago.
Quick answer: hey cool, no more meaningless exception to catch!
Codec is only used currently in HEAD, and we haven't even released an
alpha of 2.0 yet. I dug in a bit, and the DecoderException was thrown
from Base64.decode(byte[]) until version 1.12 (Last November). This was
before codec released 1.2. My solution will probably be to bump our
dependency to 1.2 and remove the catch.
Once I stop procrastinating and fax my CLA I will probably JFDI. :)
--
Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
http://www.isisnetworks.net/
Adam R. B. Jack wrote:
Folks,
I posted this to the commons-dev [codec] list yesterday, but figured you
might have views yourself (as a user of codec). I don't (personally) know
the release history of codec, or if you'd mind not being able to compile
your CVS HEAD code against older releases (assume any existed where it
threw
this exception), but one quick fix would be to compile out the try/catch.
Clearly this is to your discretion, and depends upon what codec has
released, and what they plan on releasing. If I get an answer on
commons-dev
I'll post it here.
regards,
Adam
