[8u] Request for enhancement backport approval for CR JDK-8171194: Exception "Duplicate field name&signature in class file" should report the name and signature of the field

[David Holmes]

On 19/04/2017 10:48 PM, Robert Mckenna (rob.mckenna at oracle.com) wrote:
> Thanks Shafi, this has been approved.

To be clear this is the enhancement approval, push approval still has to 
be requested - right?

Thanks,
David

>     -Rob
>
> On 16/04/17 10:06, Shafi Ahmad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This changes required to improve the ability to diagnose issues in large projects.
>> The information is available it is just that it is not being emitted in the exception message.
>> This should fall under improvements to serviceability.
>>
>> So may I get the approval of enhancement backport of 'JDK-8171194 to jdk8u-dev.
>>
>> The enhancement backport request id is https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8176800
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shafi
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rob McKenna
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:47 PM
>>> To: Shafi Ahmad <shafi.s.ahmad at oracle.com>
>>> Cc: jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: [8u] Request for enhancement backport approval for CR JDK-
>>> 8171194: Exception "Duplicate field name&signature in class file" should
>>> report the name and signature of the field
>>>
>>> Hi Shafi,
>>>
>>> This request has been rejected by the PM as:
>>>
>>> "There isn't any justification as to why this shouldn't simply be done on the
>>> next major release but should also be backported to already released
>>> versions"
>>>
>>> It may help to update the justification in this thread focusing on the
>>> servicability aspects and the impact on older releases.
>>>
>>>     -Rob
>>>
>>> On 29/03/17 11:46, Shafi Ahmad wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> May I get the approval of enhancement backport of 'JDK-8171194:
>>> Exception "Duplicate field name&signature in class file" should report the
>>> name and signature of the field' to jdk8u-dev.
>>>>
>>>> Jdk10 bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171194
>>>>
>>>> "java.lang.ClassFormatError: Duplicate field name&signature in class file
>>> CampaignClient"
>>>>
>>>> From the above Exception message, it is difficult of knowing what is
>>> triggering the problem.
>>>> If the class in question is quite big so removing code by trial and error is
>>> very time consuming.
>>>>
>>>> With field name + signature, pinpointing the actual problematic code will be
>>> easy and time saving.
>>>>
>>>> I have tested it with the jprt and jtreg tests.
>>>>
>>>> Please note the original bug was raised against jdk8u.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Shafi
>>>>