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

Wed Oct 18 16:00:00 GMT 2006

Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> 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?!)
>
libgcj has had *many* bug fixes since 3.4, I would suggest running 
against the current svn trunk (or 4.2 when it branches) to see if this 
has been fixed.
David Daney