RFR 4358774: Add null InputStream and OutputStream

[Brian Burkhalter]

Patrick’s comment made us think again about the naming here as “nullStream()” would not fit for eventual equivalent methods on Reader and Writer. It might be better to go with something like

InputStream InputStream.nullSource();
OutputStream.nullSink();

and later

Reader.nullSource();
Writer.nullSink();

Another alternative would be simply to reflect the class names in the methods:

InputStream InputStream.nullInputStream();
OutputStream.nullOutputStream();

and later

Reader.nullReader();
Writer.nullWriter();

Comments?

Thanks,

Brian

On Dec 6, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Patrick Reinhart <patrick at reini.net> wrote:

> Is there also a issue for the same kind of methods for Reader and Writer?