8157677: Subclasses of Reader do not inherit the contents in the exception tag from the parent Reader class in the latest spec

Pavel Rappo pavel.rappo at oracle.com
Tue May 24 14:24:50 UTC 2016


Thanks for looking at this!

> On 24 May 2016, at 15:16, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> *) CharArrayReader: code changes

What's your concern with 'b'->'buf' rename? Access parameter's name through
reflection or something else?

> *) It's weird to see @exception and @throws side-by-side:
> 
>      * @exception  IOException  If an I/O error occurs
>      * @throws     IndexOutOfBoundsException {@inheritDoc}
> 

I wanted to address this issue only, i.e. to be very focused. 

> Wouldn't it be better to raise the priority for the javadoc bug, and fix
> it there?

It doesn't mean we can't raise the priority, though it's not me to decide this.
Especially, given there's a trivial workaround available.





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