RFR: 8282572: EnumSet should be a sealed class

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 10:50:35 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to implement the enhancement requested in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8282572?
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> The (public) `EnumSet` class has 2 package private (JDK) internal sub-classes - the `JumboEnumSet` and `RegularEnumSet`. These 2 classes don't have any sub-classes of their own. 
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> In this commit, the `EnumSet` is marked as `sealed` and the `JumboEnumSet` and `RegularEnumSet` are the two permitted sub classes.  Both of these sub-classes are now marked as `final` too. Usage of `non-sealed` modifier for these 2 sub-classes was an option too. But I decided to start with the more restrictive option since we don't have any other sub-classes and if and when we do have their sub-classes, it's possible to change them to `non-sealed`.
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> The `EnumSet` class implements the `java.io.Serializable` interface. As part of this change, manual tests have been run to make sure that changing this class to `sealed` and marking the sub-classes as `final` don't break any serialization/deserialization semantics, across Java version and/or user application versions.
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> `tier1` testing across various platforms is currently in progress.

The linked CSR has now been approved.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7741