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Byte order mark screws up file reading in Java

I’m trying to read CSV files using Java. Some of the files may have a byte order mark in the beginning, but not all. When present, the byte order gets read along with the rest of the first line, thus causing problems with string compares. Is there an easy way to skip the byte order mark when it is prese…

Java – find the first cause of an exception

I need to check if an exception is caused by some database problem. I receive an Exception and check if its cause contains the “ORA” string and return that (something like “ORA-00001”). The problem here is that the exception I receive is nested inside other exceptions, so if I don&#821…

Using Mockito’s generic “any()” method

I have an interface with a method that expects an array of Foo: I am mocking this interface using Mockito, and I’d like to assert that doStuff() is called, but I don’t want to validate what argument are passed – “don’t care”. How do I write the following code using any(), t…

Growing ByteBuffer

Has anyone has ever seen an implementation of java.nio.ByteBuffer that will grow dynamically if a putX() call overruns the capacity? The reason I want to do it this way is twofold: I don’t know how much space I need ahead of time. I’d rather not do a new ByteBuffer.allocate() then a bulk put() eve…