RE: Brain cramp: reading an IFS file from program running on PC

Hi, David --

Oh, I think I see what you're talking about now. Properties.load() assumes
that its argument is a stream using ISO 8859-1 encoding which is a kind of
ASCII. Your input stream ("is") is presenting characters based on the
native byte representation on the 400 since InputStreams don't take the
CCSID into account. I think you can create your own input stream class to
accomplish what you want. I haven't tested this (or even compiled it) so
take that into account. Also, you'd need to make adjustments where the
CCSID was not a single byte character set.

public class DavidsIFSFileInputStream
extends IFSTextFileInputStream
{
public DavidsIFSFileInputStream(IFSFile file)
throws AS400SecurityException, IOException
{
super(file);
}

public int read()
throws IOException
{
String s = read(1);
if (s.length() == 0)
{
return -1;
}
else
{
return s.getBytes()[0];
}

public int read(byte[] data, int dataOffset, int length)
throws IOException
{
String s = read(length);
if (s.length() == 0)
{
return -1;
}
int len = s.length();
System.arraycopy(s.getBytes(), 0, data, dataOffset, len);
return len;
}

public int read(byte[] data)
throws IOException
{
return read(data, 0, data.length);
}
}

HTH,
Gary