On 31/01/2013 23:20, Xueming Shen wrote:
Any opinion of an ioe based specific InvalidedBase64BytesException
is more appropriate/preferred/desired in this kinda of situation? The
argument against the IAE is probably that an IAE may be a surprise
for someone working on inputstream.read().
-Sherman
I just replied to your original mail, as IAE doesn't make sense here.
I guess the question on whether you need a specialized exception comes
down to whether it would be useful to take recovery action that would be
different to other I/O exceptions that might happen. If we don't have
good use-cases then it's probably not worth doing it now, it is always
something that could be added later if really needed (as it shouldn't
break anyone to throw a more specific exception in the future).
-Alan
