RFR: 6206780 (str) Forwarding append methods in String{Buffer, Builder} are inconsistent

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/10/2012 01:52, Jim Gish wrote:
> I've revamped the previous proposed change.  Please review the update 
> at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jgish/Bug6206780-sb-append-forward/ 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejgish/Bug6206780-sb-append-forward/>
>
> This revision contains the following additions/changes:
> 1. consistent usage of @Overrides
> 2. comments on unsynchronized methods depending on other synchronized 
> methods
> 3. overall more code coverage of insert, append, indexOf, lastIndexOf, 
> etc. for both StringBuffer and StringBuilder
> 4. testing of StringBuffer to ensure that all public un-synchronized 
> methods are actually synchronized along their call chain.  the 
> StringBuffer/TestSynchronization class uses reflection to decide which 
> methods to test and could be (with a bit of work on method parameter 
> setup), be used to test any class for these synchronization 
> properties.  The motivation for this test is to provide some degree of 
> assurance that modifications to StringBuffer, particularly addition of 
> new methods, do not break the synchronization contract. The code also 
> includes a self-test to guard against breaking the test program itself.
>
I'm skimmed over this and StringBuffer looks a lot better, thanks for 
reverting back and adding the comments.

I don't have time to review the tests just now but it looks like you've 
added a test of useful tests. I did look at 
TestSynchronization.testSynchronized and the approach looks right. The 
timeout is short so there will periodically be false positives but 
that's okay as increasing the timeout will slow down the test (the main 
thing I was looking for was the potential for false negatives).

-Alan