8004371: (props) Properties.loadFromXML needs small footprint XML parser as fallback when JAXP is not present

[Mandy Chung]

On 12/5/12 10:58 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8004371/webrev/
>

Yay!  Properties no longer requires JAXP to be present in order to 
load/store properties in XML format.  This looks okay to me.  Some minor 
comments:

XMLStreamWriterImpl.isEncodingSupported - it returns true if any string 
!= "UTF-32" that assumes the given encoding is one of the few known 
values.  Would it be better to check the explicit list of supported 
encoding?
     private boolean isEncodingSupported(String encoding) {
         if (encoding.equalsIgnoreCase("UTF-32")) {
             return false;
         }
         return true;
     }

PropertiesDefaultHandler.java L115-116: can be replaced with 
Properties.stringPropertyNames() and foreach.

XMLStreamWriterImpl.java L156 - since the caller needs to unwrap 
XMLStreamException to determine if the encoding is supported or not, 
maybe better to throw this constructor to throw 
UnsupportedEncodingException.

Perhaps s/SAXParserImp/SAXParserImpl be consistent with the other 
classname e.g. XMLStreamWriterImpl.

As you mentioned, there is still a good bit of clean-up required and I 
skip the style and coding convention comments.  One question though - 
jdk.internal.org.xml.sax.** are copied from JAXP source.  What should 
the copyright years be?  It currently retains the same value from the 
original copy.

> One issue that I'm still mulling over, as least for the profiles 
> effort, is whether to only include the fallback provider in the 
> smallest profile as it won't be used otherwise. If the eventual size 
> isn't too significant then it might not be worth it of course.

Do you plan to include jdk.internal.util.xml.BasicXmlPropertiesProvider 
in META-INF/services/sun.util.spi.XmlPropertiesProvider?

I guess you are referring to what makefile change should be depending on 
the decision?

Mandy