[IMAGING-128] TIFF Image Writer is not flushing output

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: Review Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gary Lucas
• Created: 26/Feb/14 14:30
• Updated: 29/Dec/14 11:15

Description

The writeImage() method in the TiffImageWriterBase class takes an java.io.OutputStream argument as the destination for its output. It does not explicitly call flush() on the output stream when it is finished writing data. If the calling application allows the output stream to go out of scope, rather than explicitly calling close(), any pending output will be lost and the output image file will be left in a broken state. Although, ideally, applications SHOULD explicitly call close() on an i/o file, we should probably add a call to flush to the writeImage method to provide some robustness.

This behavior was observed in Java 7.