[Bug] ZipFile.entries() returns null for bad zip-file

Wed Oct 18 09:50:00 GMT 2006

Hi there,
Not knowing if this bug has been fixed, or is a bug at all - maybe it's 
a feature born from poor method specification.
Nevertheless, invoking "ZipFile.entries()" on a ZipFile-instance 
representing a corrupt zip-file (any file not being a valid zip-file), 
returns null, whereas I would expect an empty enumeration instead...
This is with my ancient 3.4.5 libgcj, however searching bugzilla didn't 
reveal an existing report for this (could be a result from merging the 
bug-database between Classpath and GCJ?!)
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import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
public class Provoke
{
 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
 {
 ZipFile zf = new ZipFile("badfile.zip");
 System.out.println("entries: " + zf.entries());
 } // main
} // Provoke