RFR [9]: Remove character coders from sun.misc

[Roger Riggs]

+1

Removing dead code is great!

Roger


On 12/14/2015 4:15 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> 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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