RFR: 8272998: ImageIO.read() throws incorrect exception type

[Damon Nguyen]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 19:53:22 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> ImageIO.read() only documents IOException for any kind of decoding problem and since
> it is a convenience API we don't want to start requiring applications to handle other RuntimeExceptions.
> So in the unlikely case of some problem decoding using this API, wrap any RuntimeException in
> an IIOException. This will give more stable app behaviour and still report the underlying problem.

The change makes sense to me. I built and ran your test with the change and it works on my end. Looks good to me.

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Marked as reviewed by dnguyen (Author).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9113