Task for an aspiring JDK contributor

[Ethan McCue]

What situation were you encountering the exception? Was it when trying to
add to the returned list?

If so, that's expected. Arrays.asList only wraps an underlying array, it
can't grow it. By that measure List.of() is even more unintuitive because
you can't set anything.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 11:06 AM Andreas Røsdal <andreas.rosdal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am an aspiring JDK contributor, having used Java in my work as a
> developer.
>
> I was recently surprised by an Exception thrown when using the
> java.util.Arrays.asList() method
> so I would like to propose some improvements to this API. In particular:
> - When using java.util.Arrays.asList() then AbstractList is throwing UnsupportedOperationException
> which is not user-friendly or intuitive.
> -  java.util.Arrays.asList() returning a private class called ArrayList,
> which is not the usual java.util.ArrayList, so it's not user-friendly or
> intuitive.
>
> Since this would be my first contribution to the JDK, and the goal is to
> complete the contribution with accepted pull request and get the Arrays API
> improved, what would the first step to making this first improvement to the
> JDK be?
>
> I would also like to share a link to an open source project I've been
> working on:
> https://github.com/fciv-net/fciv-net
>
> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Andreas R.
>
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