[ACCEPTED]-Does BufferedReader.ready() method ensure that readLine() method does not return NULL?-file-io

Accepted answer

Score: 16

The ready method tells us if the Stream 12 is ready to be read.

Imagine your stream 11 is reading data from a network socket. In 10 this case, the stream may not have ended, because 9 the socket has not been closed, yet it may 8 not be ready for the next chunk of data, because 7 the other end of the socket has not pushed 6 any more data.

In the above scenario, we 5 cannot read any more data until the remote 4 end pushes it, so we have to wait for the 3 data to become available, or for the socket 2 to be closed. The ready() method tells us 1 when the data is available.

Score: 13

The Reader.ready() and InputStream.available() rarely 3 work as you might like, and I don't suggest 2 you use them. To read a file you should 1 use

String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
    System.out.println("<"+line+">");

Score: 7

Here's what the Javadocs have to say:

Tells 17 whether this stream is ready to be read. A 16 buffered character stream is ready if the 15 buffer is not empty, or if the underlying 14 character stream is ready.

So a BufferedReader 13 is considered ready simply if the underlying stream is also 12 ready. Since BufferedReader is a wrapper, this 11 underlying stream could be any Reader implementation; hence 10 the semantics of ready() are those declared on 9 the interface:

Returns true if the next read() is 8 guaranteed not to block for input, false 7 otherwise. Note that returning false does 6 not guarantee that the next read will block.

So 5 you only really get timing guarantees, i.e. that 4 read() will not block. The result of calling 3 ready() tells you absolutely nothing about the 2 content you'll get back from a read() call, and so cannot 1 be used to elide a null check.

Score: 1

Look at the API for ready.

What you're doing is wrong. ready() only 3 tells you if the stream is readable and 2 valid. Read the comment under return on 1 that link as well.

What you want to do is:

String thisLine;

//Loop across the arguments
for (int i=0; i < args.length; i++) {

  //Open the file for reading
  try {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[i]));
    while ((thisLine = br.readLine()) != null) { // while loop begins here
      System.out.println(thisLine);
    } // end while 
  } // end try
  catch (IOException e) {
    System.err.println("Error: " + e);
  }
} // end for

Source: stackoverflow.com

[ACCEPTED]-Does BufferedReader.ready() method ensure that readLine() method does not return NULL?-file-io

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