Index: GermanAnalyzer.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 GermanAnalyzer.java
--- GermanAnalyzer.java	12 Mar 2004 09:45:17 -0000	1.9
+++ GermanAnalyzer.java	26 Mar 2004 16:50:27 -0000
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardTokenizer;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@
   /**
    * Builds an analyzer with the given stop words.
    */
-  public GermanAnalyzer(File stopwords) {
+  public GermanAnalyzer(File stopwords) throws IOException {
     stopSet = new HashSet(WordlistLoader.getWordtable(stopwords).keySet());
   }
 
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@
   /**
    * Builds an exclusionlist from the words contained in the given file.
    */
-  public void setStemExclusionTable(File exclusionlist) {
+  public void setStemExclusionTable(File exclusionlist) throws IOException {
     exclusionSet = new HashSet(WordlistLoader.getWordtable(exclusionlist).keySet());
   }
 
Index: WordlistLoader.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/WordlistLoader.java,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 WordlistLoader.java
--- WordlistLoader.java	12 Mar 2004 09:43:48 -0000	1.6
+++ WordlistLoader.java	26 Mar 2004 16:50:27 -0000
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@
 
 /**
  * Loads a text file and adds every line as an entry to a Hashtable. Every line
- * should contain only one word. If the file is not found or on any error, an
- * empty table is returned.
+ * should contain only one word.
  *
  * @author    Gerhard Schwarz
  * @version   $Id: WordlistLoader.java,v 1.6 2004/03/12 09:43:48 ehatcher Exp $
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@
    * @param path      Path to the wordlist
    * @param wordfile  Name of the wordlist
    */
-  public static Hashtable getWordtable(String path, String wordfile) {
+  public static Hashtable getWordtable(String path, String wordfile) throws IOException {
     if (path == null || wordfile == null) {
       return new Hashtable();
     }
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@
   /**
    * @param wordfile  Complete path to the wordlist
    */
-  public static Hashtable getWordtable(String wordfile) {
+  public static Hashtable getWordtable(String wordfile) throws IOException {
     if (wordfile == null) {
       return new Hashtable();
     }
@@ -96,13 +95,16 @@
    * @param wordfile  File containing the wordlist
    * @todo Create a Set version of this method
    */
-  public static Hashtable getWordtable(File wordfile) {
+  public static Hashtable getWordtable(File wordfile) throws IOException {
     if (wordfile == null) {
       return new Hashtable();
     }
     Hashtable result = null;
+    FileReader freader = null;
+    LineNumberReader lnr = null;
     try {
-      LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(new FileReader(wordfile));
+      freader = new FileReader(wordfile);
+      lnr = new LineNumberReader(freader);
       String word = null;
       String[] stopwords = new String[100];
       int wordcount = 0;
@@ -117,9 +119,11 @@
       }
       result = makeWordTable(stopwords, wordcount);
     }
-// On error, use an empty table
-    catch (IOException e) {
-      result = new Hashtable();
+    finally {
+        if (lnr != null)
+            lnr.close();
+        if (freader != null)
+            freader.close();
     }
     return result;
   }