Misleading documentation for class java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider

[Christian Schulte]

Hello,

I am not sure if this is the correct mailing list to send this mail to.
Please apologize any inconvenience caused.

The JDK 7 documentation of class java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider
states the following:

[...]
Charset providers are looked up via the current thread's context class
loader.
[...]

Looking at method 'private static Iterator providers()' of class
'java.nio.charset.Charset', the above documentation seems incorrect
since that method uses the system class loader.

ClassLoader cl = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
ServiceLoader<CharsetProvider> sl =
ServiceLoader.load(CharsetProvider.class, cl);

Is this intended ?


Regards,

-- 
Christian Schulte