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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, 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.  Oracle designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
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+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
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+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+
+import java.io.IOUtil;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+/* @test
+   @summary Test copy a Readable to a Appendable reporting the amount 
+            of characters copied in total.
+ */
+public class CopyReadableAppendable {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        new CopyReadableAppendable().go();
+    }
+
+
+    private void go() throws Exception {
+        String data = LoremIpsum.getString();
+        StringReader in = new StringReader(data);
+        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
+
+        if (IOUtil.copy(in, out) != data.length()) {
+            throw new Exception("expected amount of copied characters wrong");
+        }
+
+        if (!data.equals(out.toString())) {
+            throw new Exception("copied data wrong");
+        }
+    }
+}