RFR: 8318200: String::newStringNoRepl and String::getBytesNoRepl does not throw CharacterCodingException [v5]

Roger Riggs rriggs at openjdk.org
Tue Oct 17 18:09:59 UTC 2023


On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:22:10 GMT, Shaojin Wen <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When calling String::newStringNoRepl and String::getBytesNoRepl, we need to use try...catch to handle CharacterCodingException and throw IllegalArgumentException instead of CharacterCodingException to make the calling code cleaner.
>
> Shaojin Wen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   fix from @AlanBateman 's review

Hacking around the exception types isn't a good fix.
If the exception is thrown, it is because of a charset conversion error.
IllegalArgumentException is for cases where the arguments are incorrect.

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Changes requested by rriggs (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16209#pullrequestreview-1683043411


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