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

Jaikiran Pai jpai at openjdk.java.net
Tue Sep 14 13:22:58 UTC 2021


On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:56:28 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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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> I would leave it as an `@implNote` - or possibly `@implSpec`: depending on whether or not we want all implementations of the spec to behave in this way. However I don't think we would want to prevent subclasses from overriding this behavior and using their own business-logic ordering. So I believe the default behavior should be specified, if only so that subclasses can decide whether or not to override this method, without invalidating what subclasses might currently have implemented - or might wish to implement in the future. The CSR will be a good way to get feedback on whether `@implNote` or `@implSpec` is more appropriate. Also this is a change in behavior that needs to be made visible somewhere - and nobody reads release notes ;-)

Done. I've updated the PR to include a `@implNote` specifying the order of the properties. The CSR has been updated too to reflect this.

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


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