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

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Dec 5, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

Actually this suggestion is not good as “file” subsumes regular files, directories, and links.

Brian
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