RFR: 8216407: java.util.UUID.fromString accepts input that does not match expected format

[Peter Levart]

Hi Roger,

What about deprecating this method (not for removal at this time) and 
creating new method UUID.valueOf(String) or similar that would be more 
strict?

Peter

On 3/6/20 7:15 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> Hi Chihiro, et.al.,
>
> Thanks for taking a look at this issue,  however...
>
> There has been a long history of concerns[1] about breaking existing 
> applications
> that depend on the loose parsing of UUIDs.  Throwing an exception 
> where it did not
> previously is an incompatible change.
>
> The crucial concern about performance parsing conforming strings has 
> been addressed by:
>
> 8196334 Optimize UUID#fromString 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196334>
>
> I propose to close these as WILL-NOT-FIX: and hope that the next 
> several times it gets reported
> they will be closed as duplicates.
>
> 8216407  <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8216407> 
> java.util.UUID.fromString accepts input that does not match expected 
> format
>
> 8165199 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165199>UUID.fromString 
> accepts wrong placements of the dashes
>
> Any other suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks, Roger
>
> [1] 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-December/057470.html
>
>
> On 3/2/20 10:39 AM, Chihiro Ito wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to correct this problem.
>>
>> Could you review this fix, please?
>>
>> According to the RFC 4122, UUID has a fixed format. I tried to raise an
>> exception if a string was specified that is not suitable for this
>> format. Also, is there anything else I should be aware of with this bug?
>>
>> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cito/JDK-8216407/webrev.00/
>> JBS : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8216407
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chihiro
>