RFR: 8365878: jshell TOOLING's javap should use binary names [v2]

altrisi duke at openjdk.org
Fri Aug 22 15:21:52 UTC 2025


On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:30:46 GMT, altrisi <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR makes TOOLING.jsh's `javap` function support anonymous, local and built-in nested classes.
>> 
>> Note that nested classes created in jshell would previously work, but not JDK ones as they'd miss the is built-in check (wrong name for `Class.forName`) and later throw an exception because of a null classloader.
>> 
>> The rest of classes would fail the canonical name check, which wouldn't allow them to be disassembled.
>> 
>> This change makes them work by changing the check from canonicalName != null to specific checks for unsupported types of classes, and doing Class.forName using the result of getName(), not the canonical name, for the built-in check.
>
> altrisi has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Update copyright and add this bug id to ToolingTest

Thanks for the reviews! Reran the failed GHA and now completed successfully.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26864#issuecomment-3214749181


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