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Junjie Peng commented on DERBY-3770:
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Mamta, thanks for your adivice.
I have contemplated your comment , I think the test is OK in this situation.
The NPE is checked first when calling the skipFully() method, so no other kind
of exception will be thrown. What's your opinion?
As to the "more graceful way of catching unexpected exceptions", above all,
thanks for your advice, it helps me understand the test framework better.
However, I haven't found known tools to realize it, so I would leave it as it's
now.
Regards
Junjie
> Create a utility class for skipping data in an InputStream
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>
> Key: DERBY-3770
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3770
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Miscellaneous
> Affects Versions: 10.5.0.0
> Reporter: Kristian Waagan
> Assignee: Junjie Peng
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: derby-3770-1.patch, derby-3770-1.stat,
> derby-3770-2.patch, derby-3770-2.stat
>
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> The contract of InputStream.skip is somewhat difficult, some would even say
> broken.
> See http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html#skip(long))
> A utility class should be created to ensure that we use the same skip
> procedure throughout the Derby code base.
> Suggested functionality:
> - long skipFully(InputStream) : skips until EOF, returns number of bytes
> skipped
> - void skipFully(InputStream,long) : skips requested number of bytes, throws
> EOFException if there is too few bytes in the stream
> I know of two different approaches, both skipping in a loop:
> a) Verify EOF with a read call when skip returns zero.
> b) Throw EOFException if skip returns zero before requested number of bytes
> have been skipped.
> There's related code in iapi.util.UTF8Util. Maybe this class, say StreamUtil,
> could be put in the same package?
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