Review 8035808: Eliminate dependency to GetPropertyAction and other sun.security.action convenient classes

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/03/2014 11:39, Peter Levart wrote:
>
> Maybe, if PrivilegedAction interface could be retrofitted as follows:
>
>     public interface PrivilegedExceptionAction<T> {
>         T run() throws Exception;
>     }
>
>     public interface PrivilegedAction<T> extends 
> PrivilegedExceptionAction<T> {
>         @Override
>         T run();
>     }
>
>
> Then in majority of cases where lambda body did not throw a checked 
> exception, the most-specific rule would choose the 
> doPrivileged(PrivilegedAction) method automatically... For 
> checked-exceptional-cases the cast would still be needed.
There was a discussion on security-dev about this some time ago and this 
bug created:
    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8019851

I hope it will be looked at again in 9 as it is an inconvenience in the 
JDK (but perhaps not as much outside of the JDK where it's not going to 
be used very much).

-Alan.