Re: What replaces StringBufferInputStream

From:
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:41:26 +0200
Message-ID:
<4lictmF21sslU1@individual.net>
On 29.08.2006 03:32, Patricia Shanahan wrote:

Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Patricia Shanahan wrote:

I need to generate an InputStream from a String containing some test
data.

StringBufferInputStream is deprecated, and the documentation points to
StringReader.

However, after looking through java.io several times, I have not found
how to construct an InputStream from a Reader.


That works, and gets rid of the warnings. But why does the
StringBufferInputStream documentation say "As of JDK 1.1, the preferred
way to create a stream from a string is via the StringReader class." if
StringReader cannot do StringBufferInputReader's job?


Um, as far as I can see there is no StringBufferInputReader. The
replacement for StringBufferInputStream is InputStreamReader - the major
difference is that the latter properly deals with encodings. In your
case the default constructor is probably most appropriate because the
process will likely emit its output using the default encoding of the
platform. If not, you need a way to make sure the process and your
InputStreamReader use the same encoding.

HTH

Kind regards

    robert

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