How to skip invalid characters in stream in Java/Scala?

Question

For example I have following code

Source.fromFile(new File( path), \"UTF-8\").getLines()

and it throws exception

Exception in         


        

Answer 1

If you want to avoid invalid characters using Scala, I found this worked for me.

import java.nio.charset.CodingErrorAction
import scala.io._

object HelloWorld {

  def main(args: Array[String]) = {
    implicit val codec = Codec("UTF-8")

    codec.onMalformedInput(CodingErrorAction.REPLACE)
    codec.onUnmappableCharacter(CodingErrorAction.REPLACE)

    val dataSource = Source.fromURL("https://www.foo.com")

    for (line <- dataSource.getLines) {

      println(line)
    }
  }
}