[jira] Updated: (EXEC-32) PumpStreamHandler handles null streams inconsistently

["Marco Ferrante (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Marco Ferrante updated EXEC-32:
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> PumpStreamHandler handles null streams  inconsistently
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: EXEC-32
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EXEC-32
>             Project: Commons Exec
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Marco Ferrante
>            Assignee: Siegfried Goeschl
>
> Passing null arguments in {{PumpStreamHandler}} constructors produces hard-to-understand errors.
> E.g.
> {code:java}
>   PumpStreamHandler streamHanlder = new PumpStreamHandler(System.out, System.err, null);
> {code}
> works correctly, so you can expect that _null_ is a valid argument.
> Instead
> {code:java}
>   PumpStreamHandler streamHanlder = new PumpStreamHandler(System.out, null, null);
> {code}
> raise a {{NullPointerException}}  when {{Executor.execute()}}  is invoked.
> Note that exception is raised by the {{start()}}  method of {{PumpStreamHandler}} .
> Surprisingly
> {code:java}
>   PumpStreamHandler streamHanlder = new PumpStreamHandler(null, System.err, null);
> {code}
> starts correctly, but fails with a {{NullPointerException}}  when the process exits.
> In this case, the exception is raised by the {{stop()}}  method of {{PumpStreamHandler}} .
> I think that the behavior should be more consistent and, if necessary, errors must be reported earlier.
> So I suggest two alternatives:
> - if a null argument is passed to a constructor as stdout/stderr an exception is raised immediately
> - or, if stdout or stderr are set to null, default {{System.out}}  and {{System.err}}  are used instead.
> At least, the error should be reported before starting process in every case.

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