On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Julien Aymé <julien.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Huxing,
>
> since the PrintStream/PrintWriter are built around an existing (open)
> OutputStream/Writer: the parameter passed to the method,
> it is the responsibility of the caller to close the OutputStream/Writer.
>
> Thus, there is no need to close the PrintStream/PrintWriter (they
> would close the underlying OutputStream/Writer, which is not what
> would be expected when the method is called).
Thanks Julien for responding to this.
I would also add that my main question would be (sorry haven't had
time to look at where this is used within IO's tests) "does this
invalidate or cause IO's tests to fail?"
Niall
> Regards,
> Julien
>
> 2010/10/25 Zhang, Huxing <huxing.zh...@intel.com>:
>> Dear Apache Commons IO developers,
>> I found there might be a close method missing in the source code of test
>> cases, which may be an issue.
>> No patch seems to be applied till revision 1026932.
>> How do you guys think?
>>
>> The original code here is:
>> In
>> io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/testtools/FileBasedTestCase.java
>> Line 203-223 (revision 1026932)
>>
>> protected void checkWrite(OutputStream output) throws Exception {
>> try {
>> new java.io.PrintStream(output).write(0);
>> } catch (Throwable t) {
>> throw new AssertionFailedError(
>> "The copy() method closed the stream "
>> + "when it shouldn't have. "
>> + t.getMessage());
>> }
>> }
>>
>> protected void checkWrite(Writer output) throws Exception {
>> try {
>> new java.io.PrintWriter(output).write('a');
>> } catch (Throwable t) {
>> throw new AssertionFailedError(
>> "The copy() method closed the stream "
>> + "when it shouldn't have. "
>> + t.getMessage());
>> }
>> }
>>
>> The java.io.PrintWriter is initialized without being closed after use. So
>> does the java.io.PrintStream instance.
>>
>> Thanks &Best regards,
>> Huxing
>>
>>
>
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