RFR [9]: Remove character coders from sun.misc
Chris Hegarty
chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Mon Dec 14 21:15:28 UTC 2015
As part of the preparation for JEP 260 [1], and the cleanup of technical debt in
sun.misc, I am proposing to remove the character coders.
Base abstract classes for the coders.
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/CharacterEncoder.java
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/CharacterDecoder.java
Base64, replaced with standard API in Java SE 8 [2].
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/BASE64Decoder.java
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/BASE64Encoder.java
Uuencoding [3], most recently seen in use back in 2006 in ant 1.6.5, before
being replaced in 1.7.0 with their own copy.
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UUDecoder.java
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UUEncoder.java
Lesser known coders designed to convert binary data into printable characters.
The characters are assumed to exist, but they are not assumed to be ASCII.
No sightings in the wild!
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UCDecoder.java
$ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UCEncoder.java
Related tests:
$ hg rm test/sun/misc/Encode/
removing test/sun/misc/Encode/DecodeBuffer.java
removing test/sun/misc/Encode/Encode.java
removing test/sun/misc/Encode/GetBytes.java
-Chris.
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132928
[2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Base64.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding
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