On 17 August 2011 06:18, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2011-08-17, sebb wrote: > >> On 17 August 2011 03:42, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 2011-08-15, sebb wrote: > >>>> For input, there might be a use case for leaving the stream open, in >>>> case some kind of recovery is possible. > >>>> It would be useful to have a way of determining the input file pointer >>>> at the point of failure. > >>> stream.getBytesRead() or are you thinking about anything else? > >> That would be fine. > > I'm not sure whether we need to do anything for that. The streams > already count the bytes and you can access it when an exception occurs. > We might want to revisit the exception messages whether they can include > some sort of byte count. > > For "normal users" of compress I don't expect that information to be too > useful, though. Most users won't be familiar with the details of the > format. It may be useful for us during debugging or when bugs get > reported.
Yes, that was my main concern. > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
