8182742: ClassLoader.getResourceXXX throws NPE when ClassLoader created by defineModulesWithXXX

[mandy chung]

+1

Mandy

On 12/5/17 6:11 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> I need a Reviewer for a trivial change to the class loaders that 
> support the ModuleLayer defineModulesWithXXXLoader methods. These 
> methods create one or many class loaders to load classes/resources 
> from the modules in the layer. The parent of these class loaders is 
> specified to these method to support loading classes that are not in 
> modules. A corner cases arises when the parent is specified as null, 
> the implementation doesn't handle this correctly for the case that the 
> loader(s) getResourceXXX methods attempt to locate a resource via the 
> null loader. The issue came up too late to fix in JDK 9. The changes 
> to fix this are trivial.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8182742/webrev/index.html
>
> -Alan