Review 8035808: Eliminate dependency to GetPropertyAction and other sun.security.action convenient classes
Sergey Bylokhov
Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com
Fri Mar 7 15:03:45 UTC 2014
On 3/7/14 3:31 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 21:10, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8035808/webrev.00/
>>
>> This patch converts the use of sun.security.action.GetPropertyAction
>> tolambda
>> (PrivilegedAction<String>) () -> System.getProperty(key)
>>
>> Similarly for GetIntegerAction and GetLongAction.
>>
>> The sun.security.action.* classes are just convenient classes that
>> are used not only by the security library but also used by RMI,
>> management, a couple other components that cause cross-module
>> dependency that are not absolutely necessary. They can simply be
>> replaced to call System.getProperty, Integer.getInteger, or
>> Long.getLong at the callsite.
> This looks good to me as it reduces the number of inner classes,
How it reduce the number of inner classes? Since it replaces a usage of
one particular class to the new lambdas each time they are used.
Is this absolutely necessary? Does it mean that Get**Actions are
deprecated now?
> removes a lot of dependencies on sun.* APIs, and updates the code to
> use new language features. The only downside appears to the cast but
> you can't really get away from that here (at least not without
> declaring a PrivilegedAction for each usage).
>
> -Alan.
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Best regards, Sergey.
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