RFR(S) / guidance, 8022701 Accessibility checking: InvocationTargetException is thrown instead of IllegalAccessError

[David Holmes]

On 7/09/2013 1:28 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 06/09/2013 15:18, David Chase wrote:
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~drchase/8022701/webrev.00/
>>
>> Question #2, what's the best way to write a jtreg test suite that
>> requires incompatible class files, that could not result from a single
>> javac compilation?
> Can you coerce ASM into creating it? Alternatively it is something that
> you can create off-line and include in a class as a byte array (to load
> via your own URLClassLoader)?

Multiple @compile tags in the main test?

David
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>>
>> Question #3, the message(s) attached to the exception are not the same
>> in all cases:
>>
>> a. IllegalAccessError's been caught java.lang.IllegalAccessError:
>> member is private: MethodSupplier.m()void/invokeVirtual, from
>> MethodInvoker
>>
>> b. IllegalAccessError's been caught java.lang.IllegalAccessError:
>> tried to access method MethodSupplier.m()V from class MethodInvoker
>>
>> c. IllegalAccessError's been caught java.lang.IllegalAccessError:
>>
>> d. IllegalAccessError's been caught java.lang.IllegalAccessError:
>> tried to access method MethodSupplier.m()V from class MethodInvoker
>>
>> The difference between a. and c. above (and these are the two that
>> change under this fix, the code the execution definitely intersects at
>> the fix) is:
>>
>> a = Class.forName("MethodInvoker").getMethod("invoke").invoke(null);
>> c = MethodInvoker.invoke();
>>
>> yet one has the message copied from the underlying
>> IllegalAccessException (not IAError) and the other does not.
> Do you mean you want the messages to be consistent? (I don't think I
> quite get the question).
>
> -Alan
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