RFR 8199756 : Simplify language, country, script, and variant property initialization

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Mandy,

This is just one step in untangling and improving property initialization.

I'm also working on a change similar to what you suggest to remove 
some/more of the upcalls
and replace them with setting fields. In that case, the adjustments to 
the values would be handled in java.

I have performance concern (as yet unmeasured)  that moving from using a 
mostly native encoding function
(JNU_NewStringPlatform) to a Java based encoding will hurt startup 
performance. (its too early to be compiled).

So for now, I'd like to commit this as is and work on the next step 
separately.

Thanks, Roger

On 3/22/18 2:19 PM, mandy chung wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Thanks for adding the test that should have created when JDK-4700857 
> was resolved.
>
> Since this fix changes the setting of those i18n properties to later 
> after JVM_InitProperties is called, it would be a good opportunity to 
> set these properties in Java and remove the native fillI18nProps 
> method.  What it needs from Java is to get the value of 
> sprops->display_XXX, one option is to define a Java class holding 
> these displayXXX fields that are set by initProperties directly.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Mandy
>
> On 3/22/18 8:24 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The webrev[1] has been updated with a new test added to verify that 
>> if a user.* property
>> is defined on the command line, then corresponding property has the 
>> same value and
>> correctly overrides any value from the platform.
>>
>> After verification, the comment (line 304) has been corrected to 
>> refer to the platform native
>> encoding of bytes -> strings instead of the user.* I18N properties.
>>
>> The tests for properties and locales have been run and passed in a 
>> variety of locales.
>>
>> Thanks, Roger
>>
>> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-prop-simplify-8199756/
>>
>>
>> On 3/19/2018 6:38 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> Hi Roger,
>>>
>>> On 19/03/2018 11:55 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
>>>> Hi Alan,
>>>>
>>>> The original changeset [1] is most easily viewed in the jdk-8u repo.
>>>>
>>>> The comment and placement of the removes of the properties and the 
>>>> code to re-set them
>>>> around the call to the JVM_InitProperties (which sets properties 
>>>> from the
>>>> -D arguments among others), seem to indicate that the previous 
>>>> property
>>>> values are irrelevant.
>>>
>>> Not irrelevant: defaults.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The remaining question is whether there are any side effects or 
>>>> usage of those
>>>> four property values between the time they are initially set and 
>>>> when they are removed.
>>>> The code in System.initProperties is straightforward and the bulk 
>>>> of the code
>>>> is simply setting property values, with one interspersed call to 
>>>> initialize the sun.jnu_encoding.
>>>>  From all appearances there are no side effects or uses of the 
>>>> initially set values of those four properties.
>>>
>>> I would have expected these values to possibly have an impact on 
>>> InitalizeEncoding and subsequent use of PUTPROP_ForPlatformNString. 
>>> Else why set them early then unset them again? Or maybe they impact 
>>> any error messages that might arise in this stage of initialization?
>>>
>>> I expect any issues here to be extremely subtle - as Alan indicated. 
>>> If there is any path to Java code that may try to read and use these 
>>> properties then they need to be set.
>>>
>>> And if these are truly unnecessary then doesn't that imply that 
>>> placing them in sprops via GetJavaProperties in the first place is 
>>> also unnecessary?
>>>
>>> Has this been extensively tested on a non-English Windows system? 
>>> And do we even have tests for various initialization failures?
>>>
>>> David
>>> -----
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Roger
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4700857
>>>>      RFE: separating user locale and user interface locale
>>>>
>>>> On 3/17/18 5:46 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>>>> On 16/03/2018 20:32, Roger Riggs wrote:
>>>>>> Please review a small simplification of the initialization of 
>>>>>> System properties for
>>>>>> language, country, script, and variant.  Some steps for 
>>>>>> initializing them are unnecessary.
>>>>>> The tests pass; a careful review would be appreciated so as to 
>>>>>> avoid breakage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Webrev:
>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-prop-simplify-8199756/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Issue:
>>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199756
>>>>> There are subtle interactions with how system properties are set 
>>>>> in the VM and on the command line which will take a bit effort to 
>>>>> research in order to review this and be satisfied that the change 
>>>>> is safe. Have you dug into the ancient history and bugs to see why 
>>>>> it was done this way?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Alan
>>>>
>>
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