[rfc][icedtea-web] Don't be silent if JNLPClassLoader gets a ClassFormatError

[Jiri Vanek]

On 03/19/2013 08:42 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
> On 03/19/2013 03:19 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>> On 03/19/2013 05:00 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
>>> I think this is worthy because it would have saved me a lot of time investigating a recent bug.
>>> This will continue as normal, but ClassFormatError's really should be logged. It will make
>>> resulting ClassNotFoundException's less mysterious.
>>>
>>> 2013-19-03 Adam Domurad <adomurad at redhat.com>
>>>
>>> * netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/JNLPClassLoader.java
>>> (findClass): Print stacktrace for ClassFormatError
>>>
>>>
>> Hmm... why keep other ones silent?
>
> You mean PrivilegedActionException? It is worthy perhaps, shall I include it when I push ?
> (NullJnlpFileException already stores the exception and rethrows, and CNFE represents a failure that
> we fully expect when we fail to load a classs.)
>
>> Why do not rethrow?
>
> Well my logic was simply to be as lenient as possible, eg in case we ever pick something up that
> isn't really a class. However rethrow sounds good to me too. If you prefer this I can do it (I do
> not expect it to break anything, especially anything sanely organized). I looked at the history of
> this catch and it is present in the initial commit, so no telling why it was added.
>
>>

Yup :)) I like your points... But I'm not so sure that it will break anything....
I'm for rethrowing where possible, and be laud/log where we can not rethrow.
But in this particular part of code it will need a lot of empiric tastings, or somebody with insight 
into classlaoders... Omair? (silently CCed O:)

In case that we will no able to rethrow, isnt worthy to get rid of printstacktrace and to add 
standard logger? Just thing to think about....

J.