[jira] [Created] (IO-713) ReaderInputStream documentation regarding available() is incorrect

["Marcono1234 (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Marcono1234 created IO-713:
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             Summary: ReaderInputStream documentation regarding available() is incorrect
                 Key: IO-713
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-713
             Project: Commons IO
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Streams/Writers
            Reporter: Marcono1234


The documentation for {{org.apache.commons.io.input.ReaderInputStream}} says:
{quote}
Given the fact that the Reader class doesn't provide any way to predict whether the next read operation will block or not, it is not possible to provide a meaningful implementation of the InputStream.available() method. A call to this method will always return 0.
{quote}

However, {{Reader}} does actually provide such functionality: [{{Reader.ready()}}|https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/io/Reader.html#ready()].

But properly implementing {{available()}} might be tricky, see [related Guava pull request|https://github.com/google/guava/pull/5397].
Therefore it might be easiest to change the documentation, stating that {{available()}} always returns 0 without providing a reason for it.
Or {{available()}} could at least check {{encoderOut}}.



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