RFR: 8277585: Remove the terminally deprecated finalize() method from javax.imageio.stream APIs [v3]
Phil Race
prr at openjdk.org
Wed Aug 6 22:34:30 UTC 2025
> This PR removes javax/imageio/stream/ImageInputStreamImpl.finalize()
> As a result, sub-classes which over-ride it to be empty no longer need to do so.
> Also it means that the 2 remaining classes which used it no longer can.
> FileCacheImageOutputStream will have its cache cleaned up by a disposer.
> The impact on applications is that they, or the ImageWriter may need to call flush() IF they relied on finalization.
> However that should be extremely unlikely given that finalization will happen far too late in most cases, and is
> really meant to clean up internal resources.
> The JDK's GIF and TIFF image writers don't flush themselves, so applications which use these together with one of these caching streams would have learned this already.
>
> The principal outside risk is to 3rd party ImageIO stream subclasses which both allocate native resources and rely on finalization as a backstop clean up in case applications forget to call close. But it will be the applications that are affected if the resource is depleted.
> The risks of this will be covered in the CSR.
>
> There's also a lengthy write up in the JBS issue.
Phil Race has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
8277585
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26650/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26650/files/8aabb9d8..7d422513
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26650&range=02
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26650&range=01-02
Stats: 32 lines in 3 files changed: 1 ins; 26 del; 5 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26650.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26650/head:pull/26650
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26650
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