jdeps -check: add section on exports

[Jonathan Gibbons]

At a minimum, it would be a candidate for a -Xlint check.

-- Jon

On 03/23/2016 11:31 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
> In my opinion, it should be a warning (or even an error) in javac,
> you should not create a bad module in the first place.
>
> Rémi
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Anthony Vanelverdinghe" <anthony.vanelverdinghe at gmail.com>
>> À: jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Envoyé: Mercredi 23 Mars 2016 19:26:24
>> Objet: jdeps -check: add section on exports
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> It would be great if jdeps -check would also have a section on exports:
>> this section would list non-exported packages which contain types that
>> are exposed (e.g. through method signatures) by exported packages.
>> Ideally, those appearances should be listed under each package, i.e.:
>>
>> com.foo.impl
>>       type X is exposed by member Y of exported type Z
>>
>> Using this, one could easily see whether the package should indeed be
>> exported, or whether a method was mistakenly made public, or ...
>>
>> JDK-8147050 already mentions the similar case of checking whether or not
>> a "requires" ought to be public.
>>
>> What do you think? Should I file an issue for this?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Anthony
>>