ClassLoader.getParent to throw exception for module classloader

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Jun 21 09:10:49 PDT 2012


On 21/06/2012 17:03, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> :
>
> In a off-list discussion there was a side comment about making ClassLoader.getParent throwing an exception for a module class loader. This type of thing is easy to loose so marking this down in email.
>
There is commented out implementation of getParent in 
org.openjdk.jigsaw.Loader that we should probably remove too (commented 
out because getParent is final).

On the exception then wouldn't UOE be more suitable than 
IllegalStateException?

-Alan



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