RFR: 8047795: Collections.checkedList checking bypassed by List.replaceAll

[Chris Hegarty]

Looks good to me Mike.

I agree with Paul’s comment that the javadoc change will never be seen in the public docs, but I still think it is a reasonable addition for future maintainers.

Trivially, you should probably add @SuppressWarnings("unchecked”) to typeCheck(Object).

-Chris.

On 24 Jun 2014, at 01:42, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello all;
> 
> This changeset corrects a reported problem with the lists returned by Collections.checkedList(). Since Java 8 the replaceAll() method on checked lists has erroneously allowed the operator providing replacements to provide illegal replacement values which are then stored, unchecked into the wrapped list.
> 
> This changeset adds a check on the proposed replacement value and throws a ClassCastException if the replacement value is incompatible with the list. Additionally the javadoc is updated to inform users that a ClassCastException may result if the proposed replacement is unacceptable.
> 
> Note that this changeset takes the strategy of failing when the illegal value is encountered. Replacements of earlier items in the list are retained.
> 
> jbsbug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8047795
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8047795/0/webrev/
> 
> This change will be backported to Java 8.
> 
> Mike