RFR: 8360575: java.util.Properties.list() methods trim each value to 37 characters in the listed output [v4]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:01:44 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this doc-only change which proposes to clarify the current implementation of the `java.util.Properties.list(...)` methods?
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>> As noted in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8360575, the current implementation trims each value to a size of 37 when printing out the value. This behaviour isn't documented by these methods. The change in this PR adds an `@implNote` to make a mention of this current behaviour.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Alan's review - no need to state the number of characters

I'll close this current PR. Based on the inputs I've received here and offline, the suggestion is to deprecate these methods (and the one in ThreadGroup). I'm working on those changes and will open a separate PR for that.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26018#issuecomment-3183788840