BufferedReader Work Around

From:
Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:55:47 +0100
Message-ID:
<ibrvnq$3e9$1@news.albasani.net>
Dear All

I just notice that there are different buffered reader implementations
around. I am using the int read() method of a BufferedReader instance.

The read() method invokes a fill() method, which will in turn invoke
int read(char[],int,int) of the underlying stream.

The problem arises when the underlying stream returns 0 in the
read(char[],int,int). The harmony implementation does not block:

   163 int count = in.read(buf, pos, buf.length - pos);
   164 if (count != -1) {
   165 end += count;
   166 }
   http://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/io/BufferedReader.java.html

And together with the logic in read() this will give a random
return value. Which is not good.

Whereby the oracle implementation does block (JDK1.6.0_22), which
is also not good:

   134 int n;
   135 do {
   136 n = in.read(cb, dst, cb.length - dst);
   137 } while (n == 0);
   138 if (n > 0) {
   139 nChars = dst + n;
   140 nextChar = dst;
   141 }

Is there any way to obtain a buffered reader, so that in both the
harmony implementation and the oracle implementation, read() would
simply return -1?

Bye

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