RFR: 8044671: NPE from JapaneseEra when a new era is defined in calendar.properties

[Masayoshi Okutsu]

The copyright year range should be updated. Otherwise, the fix looks 
good to me.

Masayoshi

On 7/23/2014 11:51 PM, dmeetry degrave wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review a simple fix (jdk 8 and 9) for
>
> 8044671: NPE from JapaneseEra when a new era is defined in 
> calendar.properties
>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044671
> fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmeetry/8044671/webrev.01
>
> No automated regression test, unfortunately, it would require to 
> modify "private static final Era[] eras;" in 
> java/util/JapaneseImperialCalendar.java, though it's easy to test it 
> by calling 'JapaneseDate date = JapaneseDate.of(2100,1,1);' with a new 
> era added via JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/calendars.properties (test and 
> calendars.properties are attached to the bug).
>
> thanks,
> dmeetry