Proposal: JDK-8231640 - (prop) Canonical property storage

[Jaikiran Pai]

On 27/08/21 8:12 pm, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> On 27/08/21 8:05 pm, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
>> Hi Jaikiran,
>>
>> What about writing the keys in natural ordering?
>> Has that been abandoned, or will the implementation silently do it,
>> or will it require a new API?
>>
> In the discussion so far, there has been no opposition to changing the 
> implementation of these existing store(...) APIs to use natural 
> sorting order for writing out the keys.

Just to avoid any kind of confusion - when I say natural sorting order 
of keys, I mean the implementation will be changed to lexicographically 
compare the keys as noted in the compareTo[1] method of java.lang.String.


[1] 
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/16/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html#compareTo(java.lang.String)


-Jaikiran