[jira] [Commented] (IO-363) FileUtils.readFileToString((new File("myFile"), null) produces the following compilation error

["Gary Gregory (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gary Gregory commented on IO-363:
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If you really want to pass in null, then you can say:

{code:java}
FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("myFile"), (String)null)
{code}

This is better IMO:

{code:java}
FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("myFile"), Charset.defaultCharset())
{code}

                
> FileUtils.readFileToString((new File("myFile"), null)  produces the following compilation error 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-363
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-363
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Peter Warde
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>
> org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("myFile"), null) in 2.4 produces the following compilation error "The method readFileToString(File, Charset) is ambiguous for the type FileUtils", even though the javadoc says "encoding - the encoding to use, null means platform default".
> This is due to FileUtils having 2 readFileToString methods -  readFileToString(File file, Charset encoding) and readFileToString(File file,
> String encoding)

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