Hi there, I took a look, and from what I can tell you're correct - you get back null if there's no match. If no input is provided, then I think it also will return null - but the tests are pretty minimal.
Please open an issue, thanks! -- Ken On May 26, 2014, at 9:32pm, "Yi, EungJun" <semtlen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > According to the javadoc of CharsetDetector.detect(), it raises an > exception if no charset appears to match the data: > > * Raise an exception if > * <ul> > * <li>no charsets appear to match the input data.</li> > * <li>no input text has been provided</li> > * </ul> > > But it seems to me that the method returns null but does not raise an > exception. What exception does the method throw? > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > EungJun Yi > -------------------------- Ken Krugler +1 530-210-6378 http://www.scaleunlimited.com custom big data solutions & training Hadoop, Cascading, Cassandra & Solr