JarIndex not following the specification

[Daniel Fuchs]

Hi Tobias,

Regardless of whether this is a bug or not, JarIndex has been disabled
by default in JDK 18, in the hope to eventually remove it in the
future.

See https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8273473

best regards,

-- daniel

On 27/01/2022 18:41, Tobias Stadler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> According to https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/jar/jar.html, sections in META-INF/INDEX.LIST are divided by blank lines.
> 
> The write method of jdk.internal.util.jar.JarIndex does write those blank lines. But the read method begins a new section whenever it sees a line that ends with .jar. Does anybody know why JarIndex#read does not follow the specification? Is this a bug?
> 
> E.g.
> 
> some.jar
> META-INF
> META-INF/another.jar
> org
> 
> Will be be read as two sections instead of just one. Also the package org will be mapped to META-INF/another.jar instead of some.jar.
> 
> Best reagrds
> Tobias
>