Name: mlR10151 Date: 04/10/2001



According to the spec.
public long length()
 . . .
Returns -1L to indicate that the stream has unknown length.

But it returns actual length of the stream:
===================== a.java =======================
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;

public class a {
    public static void main (String argv[]) throws Exception {
        File f = File.createTempFile("tmp", "tmp");
        FileImageInputStream fiis = new FileImageInputStream(f);
        long len = fiis.length();
        System.out.println( (len == -1 ? "Passed" : "Failed") + ", len = " + len );
    }
}
===================== log =======================
java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b59)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b59, mixed mode)
% java a
Failed, len = 0

It's probably a spec. bug.

This bug causes failure of the new JCK test
api/javax_imageio/stream/FileImageInputStream/index.html#length


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