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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018, 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 java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import org.testng.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+/**
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8183554
+ * @summary Test to verify the new Constructors that take a Charset.
+ * @run testng ConstructorTest
+ */
+public class ConstructorTest {
+    static String USER_DIR = System.getProperty("user.dir", ".");
+
+    public static enum ConstructorType {
+        STRING,
+        FILE
+    }
+
+    static final String TEST_STRING = "abc \u0100 \u0101 \u0555 \u07FD \u07FF";
+    static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 8192;
+
+    @DataProvider(name = "parameters")
+    public Object[][] getParameters() throws IOException {
+        File file1 = new File(USER_DIR, "FileReaderTest1.txt");
+        File file2 = new File(USER_DIR, "FileReaderTest2.txt");
+
+        return new Object[][]{
+            {ConstructorType.STRING, file1, file2, StandardCharsets.UTF_8},
+            {ConstructorType.FILE, file1, file2, StandardCharsets.UTF_8},
+            {ConstructorType.STRING, file1, file2, StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1},
+            {ConstructorType.FILE, file1, file2, StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1},
+        };
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Verifies that the new constructors that take a Charset function the same
+     * as an InputStreamReader on a FileInputStream as was recommended before
+     * this change.
+     *
+     * @param type the type of the constructor
+     * @param file1 file1 to be read with a FileReader
+     * @param file2 file2 to be read with an InputStreamReader
+     * @param charset the charset
+     * @throws IOException
+     */
+    @Test(dataProvider = "parameters")
+    void test(ConstructorType type, File file1, File file2, Charset charset)
+            throws Exception {
+        prepareFile(file1, TEST_STRING, charset);
+        prepareFile(file2, TEST_STRING, charset);
+
+        try (FileReader fr = getFileReader(type, file1, charset);
+                FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(file2);
+                InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is, charset);) {
+            String result1 = readAll(fr, BUFFER_SIZE);
+            String result2 = readAll(isr, BUFFER_SIZE);
+            Assert.assertEquals(result1, result2);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public String readAll(Reader reader, int bufferSize) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        char[] buf = new char[bufferSize];
+        int numRead;
+        while ((numRead = reader.read(buf)) != -1) {
+            if (numRead == buf.length) {
+                sb.append(buf);
+            } else {
+                sb.append(String.valueOf(buf, 0, numRead));
+            }
+        }
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Creates a FileReader over the given input file.
+     */
+    FileReader getFileReader(ConstructorType type, File file, Charset charset)
+            throws IOException {
+        switch (type) {
+            case STRING:
+                return new FileReader(file.getPath(), charset);
+            case FILE:
+                return new FileReader(file, charset);
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    void prepareFile(File file, String content, Charset charset) throws IOException {
+        try (FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(file, charset);) {
+            writer.write(content);
+        }
+    }
+}