Bug or not bug? Files.newInputStream() on a Path which is a directory does not fail until you read from it

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Fri Dec 5 23:58:44 UTC 2014


On Dec 5, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed on that; also, it'd be really nice to have an exception such as
> IsDirectoryException or the like for such cases.

Or “NotFileException” if the methods in question are supported for files only.

Brian
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