NICTA/scoobi — Issue #33: WireFormat fails hard when writing long strings
Author: stephenroller
Created: 2012-01-09 01:12:42+00:00
State: open

Due to the use of writeUTF, writing intermediate strings longer than 64k throw a UTFDataFormatException and fail hard. This is documented in the Java API:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/DataOutput.html#writeUTF(java.lang.String)