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

[Martin Egholm Nielsen]

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