RFR: JDK-8134373: explore potential uses of convenience factories within the JDK

[Stuart Marks]

On 10/5/16 12:32 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> On 5 October 2016 at 17:07, Jonathan Bluett-Duncan
> <jbluettduncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Stephen, thank you for getting back about DateTimeFormatter. It's not clear
>> to me what should be done with
>> TCKDateTimeFormatter::test_resolverFields_listOfOneNull in this case. Do I
>> delete it; or do I change it to test that a null TemporalField param causes
>> a NullPointerException to be thrown; or do I do something else? May I have
>> your continued thoughts on this?
>
> I think you should perform no change to DateTimeFormatter (other than
> a comment) as part of this changeset. The behaviour of that
> DateTimeFormatter method is subtle, and I now suspect that what we
> have there might be the best option.

I had recommended removing the comment from DateTimeFormatter, but if Stephen 
wants the comment in, that's fine with me. In fact I'll defer to what Stephen 
(and Roger Riggs) want with this code, since they're the maintainers.

s'marks