RFR: 8261938: ASN1Formatter.annotate should not return in the finally block [v2]
Roger Riggs
rriggs at openjdk.java.net
Thu Feb 18 14:55:47 UTC 2021
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:46:53 GMT, Jie Fu <jiefu at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> ASN1Formatter.annotate should be able to throw an IOException according to this comment [1].
>> But it fails to do so due to the return [2] in the finally block, which would swallow the IOException.
>>
>> Generally, it seems not good to put a return statement in a finally block because it would overwrite other return-statements or Exceptions [3].
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Best regards,
>> Jie
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/test/lib/jdk/test/lib/hexdump/ASN1Formatter.java#L113
>> [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/test/lib/jdk/test/lib/hexdump/ASN1Formatter.java#L120
>> [3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17481251/finally-block-does-not-complete-normally-eclipse-warning
>
> Jie Fu has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>
> Update the copyright year
An EOFException can occur during the call to annotate() and must return the accumulated contents of the StringBuffer. Otherwise it is discarded.
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Changes requested by rriggs (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2620
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