JDK 8 RFR 7179567: JCK8 tests: api/java_net/URLClassLoader/index.html#Ctor3 failed with NPE

[Michael McMahon]

On 08/10/13 12:08, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 04/10/2013 21:58, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>> :
>> An updated webrev which I hope adequately addresses the expressed 
>> concerns may be found at:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/7179567.2/
>>
> This looks much better.
>
> If I read the code correctly then the long standing behavior of 
> URLClassLoader.getPermissions(null) was to throw a NPE, now it is 
> changed to return the empty collection in order to match the super 
> type (SecureClassLoader). I can't think of anything that would break 
> so this is probably okay, just maybe a bit surprising.
>

I'm still not sure about that change. Its effect in sub-classes will be 
to continue on in the sub-class implementation
of getPermissions() with a null codesource parameter, where currently 
NPE would be thrown.

Michael