RFR [8014066] Mistake in documentation of ArrayList#removeRange

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Mar 13 15:47:39 UTC 2014


Ivan,

This does look a little odd, but since fromIndex is inclusive I would think that it should throw if passed a value of size() ??

-Chris.

On 13 Mar 2014, at 15:29, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Would you please review a simple fix of the javadoc for ArrayList#removeRange() method?
> 
> The doc says that IndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown if fromIndex or toIndex is out of range (fromIndex < 0 || fromIndex >= size() || toIndex > size() || toIndex < fromIndex).
> 
> The condition 'fromIndex >= size()' isn't true and should be removed from the doc.
> 
> For example, the code list.removeRange(size(), size()) does not throw any exception.
> 
> BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8014066
> WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8014066/0/webrev/
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> Ivan




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