RFR: 8231640: (prop) Canonical property storage [v6]

[Stuart Marks]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 08:31:30 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   update javadoc to match latest changes
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> Hello Magnus,
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>> Am I the only one thinking there should also be a way for developers to explicitly disable timestamps from the API?
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>> I think the current iteration looks okay (but the core-libs guys of course has the say in this), but I still think we need a new method (or overload) to allow for a timestamp-free to be generated, always, independent of environment variables.
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> I decided to take this comment to the mailing list[1] where the proposal for this change was discussed, since it's likely more people will be watching that thread than this RFR thread.
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> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2021-September/081305.html

@jaikiran Thanks for following this through all the twists and turns. The review thread here is pretty long, but I think we've made a lot of progress and are close to converging. In addition, the code keeps getting simpler, so that's a good thing.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5372