Re: [Bug] ZipFile.entries() returns null for bad zip-file

[Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>]

Hi Tom,

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Nevertheless, invoking "ZipFile.entries()" on a
> > ZipFile-instance representing a corrupt zip-file (any file
> > not being a valid zip-file), returns null, whereas I would
> > expect an empty enumeration instead...
>
> I tried the test program with svn head and I get:
>
> opsy. gij Provoke Exception in thread "main"
> java.util.zip.ZipException: Not a valid zip file at
> java.util.zip.ZipFile.checkZipFile(ZipFile.java:197) at
> java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:136) at
> Provoke.main(Provoke.java:8)
>
> This seems more reasonable offhand, but in cases like this I 
> ordinarily would test against the JDK as well (however I don't have
> it installed atm...)

Thanks! That's the same behaviour as JDK - failing on the opening of the 
file!

So, just ignore me ;-)

// Martin