(company -  xxxxx  , email - lunn_r@mtn.co.za)

This would allow a programmer to read a line of text
not more than a certain number of characters.

Eg. reading a socket that does text IO (like SMTP)
one wants to read a line but not more than a certain
number of characters.

To use readLine() as is would be convinient but opens
such a socket reader to denial of service attacks
when a client spams volumes of text to the socket
with no new line characters.  The BufferedReader
will read all of the text and eventually run out
of memory.

(Review ID: 24018)
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Posted Date : 2006-02-01 08:45:49.0

public String readLine(int len)
{
  int currentPos=0;
  char[] data=new char[len]
  char newLineChar=System.getproperty("line.separator");
  char currentChar=read();

  while((currentChar != newLineChar) && (currentPos<len))
  {
    data[currentPos++]=currentChar;
    currentChar=read();
  }

  if(currentChar==newLineChar)
    return(new String(data,0,currentPos-1));
  else
    return(new String(data,0,currentPos));
}
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This bug was submitted over 8 years ago.  Without any compelling use case or interest, there is no strong motivation to add an api which can be implemented in a few lines of code by the small set of users who require this funtionality.  Closing this request as "will not fix".
Posted Date : 2006-02-01 08:45:49.0