8042889: (props) Properties.loadFromXML/storeToXML should consistently use the UKit parser
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon May 12 18:02:57 UTC 2014
In JDK 8 we brought in a tiny XML parser to support the Properties
loadFromXML/storeToXML methods. We needed this for the Compact Profiles
work, specifically builds of compact1 as they do not have JAXP/XML APIs.
At the time we were a bit nervous about switching the XML parser for
anything other than compact1 builds. One reason for this was that the
original javadoc didn't constrain the encodings that has to be
supported, another reason was confidence in the tests as we didn't have
too many tests for these methods in the jdk repository.
I'd like to revisit one and switch over the implementation to always use
the small parser. This allows for some clean-up, specifically it removes
the need for the JDK-internal service type that was needed to use the
JAXP code. On the original concerns then the spec was clarified in 8 to
only require UTF-8 and UTF-16. In addition there were several tests
added to better exercise these methods and the implementation. Also I
think switching this early in JDK 9 means that we maximize the time to
hear about any issues.
The webrev with the proposed changes is here, mostly red=removal so easy
to review:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8042889/webrev/
-Alan.
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