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

Joe Sam Shirah wrote:

This is what I assumed the IFSTextFileInputStream class would do. Reading
from a text file in Java should convert from >EBCDIC to Unicode
automatically.

Yep, sort of. In your case - cross platform - it's only because a
certain method in IFSTextFileInputStream does it for you.

Or doesn't do, in this case.

I'm 95% sure it DOES do that ... but I just can't figure out what I'm
doing wrong.

You're making some invalid assumptions.

True ... the assumption was that the code worked. The problem was that there is clearly a bug in the IFSTextFileInputStream class.

After a bit of digging I was able to correct problem and will be submitting a correction to the JT400 project.

I added the following method to IFSTextFileInputStream ...

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public int read(byte[] b) throws IOException {

String input = read(b.

byte[] inputBytes = input.getBytes();

int inputLength = input.length();

System.arraycopy(inputBytes, 0, b, 0, inputLength);

return inputLength;
}
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I wouldn't be surprised at all, in fact I would expect, that the
"properties" file doesn't load properly even using Java on the AS/400. If
it does, it's a convenience IBM decided to supply.

Using the IFSFileInputStream probably won't work running on the 400 (without my modification) ... but I do know that using a normal FileInputStream does work on the 400. I use it all the time.

david