RFR(M): 8199940: Print more information about class loaders in IllegalAccessErrors.

[mandy chung]

On 5/24/18 2:12 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi Lois,
> 
> I changed  the code as agreed:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr18/8199940-exMsg-IllegalAccess/02/
> 
> I'm not really sure this is good:
> 
>   interface IAE1_A {
>       public IAE1_D gen();
>   }
>   class IAE1_B implements IAE1_A {
>       public IAE1_D gen() {
>           return null;
>       }
>   }
> A is loaded by "app", B by the custom loader.
> 
> The message is now:
> "class test.IAE1_B cannot access its superinterface test.IAE1_A"
> if there are no names in the loaders.


For this IAE, it should include the module in the message as:

class test.IAE1_B (in unnamed module @0x3d04a311) cannot access its 
superinterface test.IAE1_A (in module m1)

> How should anybody know from the message that the classes were
> loaded by different loaders? It gives no hint at all to the cause of
> the problem.

The above is one example that does not have the loader name.
Each module is defined to one loader so it can derive from
the module info.

>> java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access private method
>> MySameClassLoader/m2x/p2.c2.method2()V from class
>> MySameClassLoader/m1x/p1.c1

What about other formats:

tried to access private method p2.c2.method2()V (in module m2x) from 
class p1.c1 (in module m1x)

if the loader name is highly desirable (I'm unsure yet):

tried to access private method p2.c2.method2()V (in module m2x defined 
to MySameClassLoader) from class p1.c1 (in module m1x defined to 
MySameClassLoader)

Mandy