Name: vpR10011 Date: 05/17/2001



Specification of the class javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStreamImpl says:

public void writeChars(String s) throws IOException

Writes a string to the output stream. For every character in the string s,
taken in order, two bytes are written to the output stream, ordered according
to the current byte order setting. If network byte order is being used,
the high-order byte is written first; the order is reversed otherwise.
..."



But this method ignores the current byte order setting.

To reproduce this bug run the following test:
---------------------test.java--------------
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;

public class test {
    public static void main(String[] argv) {
        OutputStream os = (OutputStream) new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        MemoryCacheImageOutputStream iosI =
                new MemoryCacheImageOutputStream(os);
        try {
            byte [] b1 = new byte[2];
            byte [] b2 = new byte[2];

            iosI.setByteOrder(true);
            iosI.writeChars("1");
            iosI.seek(0);
            iosI.read(b1);
            System.out.println("getByteOrder() = " + iosI.getByteOrder()
                   + " b1[0]=" + b1[0] + " b1[1]=" + b1[1]);

            iosI.setByteOrder(false);
            iosI.seek(0);
            iosI.writeChars("1");
            iosI.seek(0);
            iosI.read(b2);
            System.out.println("getByteOrder() = " + iosI.getByteOrder()
                   + " b2[0]=" + b2[0] + " b2[1]=" + b2[1]);

            if (b1[0] == b2[1] && b1[1] == b2[0]) {
                System.out.println("Passed");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Failed");
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Failed: unexpected exception " + e);
        }
    }
}
-------------------log----------------------
% java -version
java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b64)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b64, mixed mode)
% java test
getByteOrder() = true b1[0]=0 b1[1]=49
getByteOrder() = false b2[0]=0 b2[1]=49
Failed: b1[0]=0 b1[1]=49 b2[0]=0 b2[1]=49
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This bug causes failure of the new JCK test
api/javax_imageio/stream/ImageOutputStreamImpl/index.html#writeChars



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