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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+import org.testng.ITestResult;
+import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
+import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.CharArrayReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.LineNumberReader;
+import java.io.PipedReader;
+import java.io.PipedWriter;
+import java.io.PushbackReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
+
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8029689
+ * @summary checks the bounds part of the contract of java.io.Reader.read(char[], int, int):
+ *
+ *              0 <= off <= off+len <= cbuf.length
+ *
+ *          for publicly exported subtypes of java.io.Reader
+ *
+ * @run testng ReaderBulkReadContract
+ */
+public class ReaderBulkReadContract {
+
+    @DataProvider(name = "readers")
+    public Object[][] createReaders() throws IOException {
+        return new Object[][]
+                {
+                        {new BufferedReader(new StringReader(""))},
+                        {new BufferedReader(new StringReader("abc"))},
+                        {new LineNumberReader(new StringReader(""))},
+                        {new LineNumberReader(new StringReader("abc"))},
+                        {new CharArrayReader(new char[]{})},
+                        {new CharArrayReader(new char[]{'a', 'b', 'c'})},
+                        {new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[]{}))},
+                        {new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[]{'a', 'b', 'c'}))},
+                        {newFileReader("")},
+                        {newFileReader("abc")},
+                        {new PushbackReader(new StringReader(""))},
+                        {new PushbackReader(new StringReader("abc"))},
+                        {newPipedReader("")},
+                        {newPipedReader("abc")},
+                        {new StringReader("")},
+                        {new StringReader("abc")},
+                };
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers", expectedExceptions = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
+    void off_negative_len_zero(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        r.read(new char[8], -1, 0);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers", expectedExceptions = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
+    void off_negative_len_positive(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        r.read(new char[8], -1, 1);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers", expectedExceptions = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
+    void len_negative(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        r.read(new char[8], 0, -1);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers", expectedExceptions = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
+    void integer_overflow(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        r.read(new char[8], 4, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers", expectedExceptions = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
+    void off_plus_len_greater_than_buffers_length(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        r.read(new char[8], 5, 4);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers")
+    void subarray_N_0(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        int read = r.read(new char[8], 8, 0);
+        assertEquals(read, 0);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers")
+    void subarray_8_0_0(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        int read = r.read(new char[8], 0, 0);
+        assertEquals(read, 0);
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "readers")
+    void subarray_0_0_0(Reader r) throws IOException {
+        int read = r.read(new char[0], 0, 0);
+        assertEquals(read, 0);
+    }
+
+    @AfterMethod
+    void close(ITestResult r) throws IOException {
+        Reader reader = (Reader) r.getParameters()[0];
+        reader.close();
+    }
+
+    private static FileReader newFileReader(String contents) {
+        try {
+            File f = File.createTempFile("ReaderContract", "");
+            try (FileWriter w = new FileWriter(f)) {
+                w.write(contents);
+            }
+            return new FileReader(f);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static PipedReader newPipedReader(String contents) throws IOException {
+        try (PipedWriter w = new PipedWriter()) {
+            PipedReader r = new PipedReader(w);
+            w.write(contents);
+            return r;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}