<i18n dev> RFR: 8152817: Locale data loading fails silently when running with a security manager

[Mandy Chung]

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 30/03/2016 16:48, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu <masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Please review the fix for JDK-8152817. The fix is to load locale data from its own module without calling ResourceBundleProviderSupport.loadResourceBundle.
>>> 
>>> I changed the synopsis of the JBS issue because it's a general issue of loading locale data under a security manager, and the regression test uses DateFormatSymbols.
>>> 
>>> Issue:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8152817
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~okutsu/9/8152817/webrev.00/
>> 
>> The patch looks fine.  It makes sense to have its own copy of the utility method to load a module-private class.
> I agree. There's another usage in SupplementaryLocaleDataProvider and I wonder if we have an issue there too.
> 
> 

Good catch.  SupplementaryLocaleDataProvider needs to be fixed. 

Mandy