SoftCleanable and WeakCleanable

[Peter Levart]

Hi,


You are right. For public Cleanable API, only the PhantomCleanable is 
used currently. It is subclassed by CleanerImpl.PhantomCleanableRef to 
implement the public API and also a couple of specialized internal 
implementations. When the public Cleanable API was created, it was 
thought that there might be internal needs for Weak and Soft variants 
too. So these classes are still waiting for such use. Perhaps they could 
be retired and resurrected from VCS history when need arises.


Regards, Peter


On 8/15/20 9:00 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Florian Weimer:
>
>> * Alan Bateman:
>>
>>> On 01/08/2020 10:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>> Are jdk.internal.ref.SoftCleanable and jdk.internal.ref.WeakCleanable
>>>> actually used?
>>>>
>>>> CleanerTest rests them, but I don't see any other mentions of these
>>>> classes.
>>> Do you mean used outside of the cleaner implementation? Maybe you are
>>> looking to change them to non-public?
>> It's not clear to me how the cleaner implementation itself uses them.
>> java.lang.ref.Cleaner only needs PhantomCleanableRef.
> Any further comments on this topic?  Thanks.