RFR: 8310242: Clarify the name parameter to Class::forName [v4]

Alan Bateman alanb at openjdk.org
Sat Jun 17 13:59:16 UTC 2023


On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:35:22 GMT, Mandy Chung <mchung at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR clarifies the spec of the 3-arg Class::forName  regarding the format of the name for an array type which is of the form: one or more of "[" + binary name of the element type + ";'.
>
> Mandy Chung has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   missing 'L' for the array class name

This changes look okay but they do make me wonder if we should add a note to the 2-arg Class.forName to make it clear that it does not allow class names for array types, the class name has to be a binary name.

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Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14528#pullrequestreview-1484828693


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