[jdom-interest] Dealing with binary characters in-memory
->outputter, Sample Code, Findings
Jason Hunter
jhunter at collab.net
Wed Sep 26 10:25:37 PDT 2001
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> At 9:08 PM -0700 9/25/01, Jason Hunter wrote:
>
> >There's a BIG warning in the Javadocs about this. Your writer wasn't a
> >UTF-8 Writer. In the methods accepting a Writer it warns you have to be
> >DARN sure what you're doing.
>
> Is it time to reconsider whether we even want to remove this method?
> As I recall the big issue with removing it was that servlets only
> gave you a PrintWriter to work with. However at least as of
> version 2.2, the ServletResponse class does have a
> getOutputStream() method that can be used instead of getWriter().
JSPs still only give you a Writer, and make it illegal to call
res.getOutputStream(). Lousy, but true.
> Less radically, we could mark the Output methods that take
> Writers as deprecated,
I think it's bad form to ship a 1.0 with deprecated methods. IOW,
deprecated should not be used as a "warning" flag.
> Life would be a lot simpler if all writers had a getEncoding() method.
Agreed. That's the right solution, if only we could change it. :-)
Has anyone checked for a bug in the Bug Parade?
-jh-
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