[IO-764] IOUtils.write() throws OutOfMemoryError/NegativeArraySizeException while writing big strings

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.12.0
• Assignee: Gary D. Gregory
• Reporter: David Georg Reichelt
• Created: 04/Apr/22 10:13
• Updated: 06/Apr/22 14:14
• Resolved: 05/Apr/22 19:07

Description

Currently, if I try to write a sufficiently big to a stream, IOUtils.write fails:

java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException: -1283060862
at java.base/java.lang.StringCoding.encodeUTF8(StringCoding.java:904)
at java.base/java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:449)
at java.base/java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:964)
at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.write(IOUtils.java:3251)
at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeStringToFile(FileUtils.java:3541)
at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeStringToFile(FileUtils.java:3524)

The reason for this is that getBytes does not support Strings with this size. This should be fixed.