+1 to follow RI
Here are links to similar bugs:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4010323
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4012133
AFAIU this is not a RI bug but a feature today.
On 8/8/06, Vladimir Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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