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

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Kimmel wrote:
> Okay, I missed that you were originally trying to use the file with 
> Properties.load(). Properties.load() uses an InputStream but assumes 
> that the character encoding is ISO 8859-1. It assumes this because it
>  assumes the file was written by Properties.store() which writes
> using an OutputStream with ISO 8859-1 encoding. EDTF will work with a
> file in ISO 8859-1, but will create a new file in CCSID 37 by
> default.

Yes ... the whole discussion started because my expectation of the IFSTextFileInputStream would do the necessary translations of the characters it reads so that they would be able to be used by the Property object to read a property file on the IFS.

This turned out to NOT be the case.  The IFSTextFileInputStream class only implements the String read(int) method ... which isn't used by the Property.load() method.

I've added a read method that is passed a byte array and returns the length.  My initial testing shows this to work fine now.

I've submitted the modification to the JT400 team.  

As it happens, I just got a message from Jeff Lee (JT400 manager) and the modification will be included in the release after next (next release is imminent).

david