RFR JDK-8209553: ExceptionInInitializerError can have a default detail message if the cause is given

[mandy chung]

Hi Peter, Jason, Joe,

Thanks for the pointers.  I have missed the use of
serialPersistentFields (thanks to Peter for calling this out).  I read
the javadoc and serialization spec but that didn't come clearly to me.
It'd be good to include an example in the javadoc (will file a JBS issue).

W.r.t. the package-private API to set the cause in EIIE [1], yes it's
needed and it's done in webrev.01.  Let me redo the
readObject/writeObject part and send a new webrev.

Mandy
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk12/webrevs/8209553/webrev.01/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Throwable.java.sdiff.html

On 8/17/18 8:05 AM, Jason Mehrens wrote:
> Hi Mandy,
> 
> This what we were doing in the past and has examples of removing
> fields with expected tests: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-February/051339.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/017594.html >
> However, this case is a little different because it actually
> disallows subsequent initCause.  I would assume that will get tricky
> if you deserialize the old binary form in a newer JDK because we
> would have to jump through some hoops to update null to the cause
> exception.
> 
> Jason
>