RFR: 8308842: Consolidate exceptions thrown from Class-File API

[Chen Liang]

On Thu, 25 May 2023 08:29:37 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Class-File API actually throws wide variety of exceptions based on the actual situation. Complete error handling code must cover `IndexOutOfBoundsException`, `IllegalStateException` and `IllegalArgumentException`. 
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> Based on previous discussions we decided to consolidate on `IllegalArgumentException` with possible sub-classes. 
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> It allows easy common error handling in majority of use case, however it allows also to distinguish source of the error when needed (for example `javap` needs to know if the exception comes from constant poll or not). 
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> Newly introduced `ConstantPoolException` extends `IllegalArgumentException` to indicate the source of the problem is in constant pool. 
> 
> Please review.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam

Then this should suffice for now. We can create specific subtypes if we wish to expose specific exceptions in the future.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14143#issuecomment-1562588110