RFR: 8231640: (prop) Canonical property storage [v13]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:47:34 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   unused imports
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Properties.java line 836:
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>> 834:      * <p>
>> 835:      * Then every entry in this {@code Properties} table is
>> 836:      * written out, one per line. For each entry the key string is
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> Sorry for coming late to the party: I don't remember if this was already asked for and rejected - but shouldn't there be a non-normative `@implNote` here to state that the default implementation of this method will write the properties sorted by their keys in alphanumeric ordering?
> Otherwise this looks very good!

Hello Daniel, you are right - I missed discussing whether or not to include a `@implNote` to explain the natural sorted order of the property keys. When we started this whole PR proposal, Alan had hinted that maybe we should "specify" this behaviour. Should this be a `@implNote` or should this be part of the formal spec like we did for the system property handling?

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