problems with ObjectInputStream

[blackraven1425]

The ObjectInputStream in this code is giving a EOFException. Do I need to do anything special to get this to work withou the EOF exception? It gives the exception at the line of the first instance of ObjectInputStream.

public static ArrayListSerial getList() {
try {
try{
try {
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("J:\\collectibles.dat")));
Object inObject;
inObject = in.readObject();
if(inObject instanceof ArrayListSerial){
ArrayListSerial inObject2 = (ArrayListSerial)inObject;
return inObject2;
}
}catch(EOFException z){
System.out.println("Not");
z.printStackTrace();
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
ArrayListSerial collectibles = new ArrayListSerial(100);
item item = new item();
item.changeName("test");
collectibles.add(item);
saveList(collectibles);
e.printStackTrace();
return collectibles;

}
return null;
}

[blackraven1425]

Oh,and this is after it makes the array for the first time too. The file exists, but there's no data in it.

[JosAH]

The ObjectInputStream in this code is giving a EOFException. Do I need to do anything special to get this to work withou the EOF exception? It gives the exception at the line of the first instance of ObjectInputStream.

I bet you didn't flush/close the ObjectOutputStream properly when you wrote
the object to a file.

kind regards,

Jos

[blackraven1425]

That was absolutely it. Thanks a lot for the help!