agree, will make it so

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I agree wording is wrong but IMO it is not ambiguous: we get an inputstream
> or reader (and we *don't* want to check it is a file or not) so we just
> count the chars or bytes we read. All other implementation would lead to
> confusion IMO (make default text file reader compliant friendly).
>
> We can start this way and if we have issues go further but I really doubt
> we need it.
>
> What's your opinion?
>
>
>
>
> Romain Manni-Bucau
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>
> 2014-07-23 13:21 GMT+02:00 Hendrik Dev <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the JSR 353 API says about JsonLocation.getStreamOffset()
>>
>> "long getStreamOffset()
>>
>> Return the stream offset into the input source this location is
>> pointing to. If the input source is a file or a byte stream then this
>> is the byte offset into that stream, but if the input source is a
>> character media then the offset is the character offset. Returns -1 if
>> there is no offset available."
>>
>> There are IMHO two issues here:
>>
>> 1) How can we know that the input source is a file(stream)? We can
>> only know if the parser  read from an Inputstream (=byte stream) or
>> from an Reader (=character stream). Wording here is unclear/ambiguous.
>>
>> 2) Since a UTF8 or UTF16 character can map to one, two, three or four
>> bytes the output can be very confusing (especially if the user don't
>> know whether the parser was constructed form a byte or character
>> stream and which charset is used).
>>
>> Seems that the RI is not implementing these distinctions, if i looked
>> correctly they always return character offsets.
>>
>> So want we want do to?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Hendrik
>>
>>
>> --
>> Hendrik Saly (salyh, hendrikdev22)
>> @hendrikdev22
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>>



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