Name: jn10789 Date: 11/18/98


Trying to apply the java.io.StreamTokenizer to a textual configuration file given as an URL, like it is done in the AWT demos WireFrame and MoleculeViewer, you will encounter the following problem:
java.net.URLConnection provides only a method getInputStream() for opening the file. Unfortunately, the constructor StreamTokenizer(InputStream is) is now deprecated for internal reasons, as ###@###.### wrote me.
So you would be forced to use some code like this:

    Reader isr = new InputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream());
    StreamTokenizer st = new StreamTokenizer(isr);

This piece of work hasn't been included in the deprecated constructor of StreamTokenizer because the buffered InputStreamReader behaves slightly different than the non-buffered InputStream.
So we both agreed, that it would be a good idea to let URLConnection provide a proprietary method getReader() as described below in the workaround field:
(Review ID: 37346)
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