[9] RFR 8170769: Provide a simple hexdump facility for binary data

[Vincent Ryan]

> On 8 Dec 2016, at 07:22, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/12/2016 2:32 AM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
>> A hexdump facility has been available for many, many years via an unsupported class: sun.misc.HexDumpEncoder.
>> Although that class was always unsupported, it was still accessible. That accessibility changes with Jigsaw so I’m proposing
>> a very simple replacement in a new and supported class: java.util.HexDump.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170769
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8170769/webrev.00/
> 
> googling for "hexdump java" reveals quite a few hits - including javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.

DatatypeConverter is no longer directly accessible in JDK 9 as it is in the java.xml.bind module.
So an ‘—add-modules’ flag would be required.


> 
> Does this sun.* class really meet the acceptance criteria for inclusion in java.util? That bar is intentionally set very high.

We considered other locations for these methods (including java.lang.String !) but settled on java.util.HexString
as a good balance between visibility and controversy.


> 
> Just wondering ...
> 
> David
>