[9] RFR 8170113: jimage extract to readonly directory causes MissingResourceException

[Denis Kononenko]

Hi,

> 
> On 06/02/2017 10:27, Denis Kononenko wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could someone please review this very small fix.
> >
> > The class JImageTask
> (src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jimage/JImageTask.java) has
> references to an info message by 'err.cannot.create.dir' key.
> Unfortunately the corresponding resource file
> (src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jimage/resources/jimage.properties)
> doesn't contain this key. This results in long not user friendly
> stacktraces in output when jimage cannot create a directory. The fix
> is very small, I added the missing definition into the resource file.
> >
> > BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170113
> > WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dkononenko/8170113/webrev.00
> >
> This looks okay as a short term fix but I think that extract need to 
> be-implemented to use the new file system API so that the reasons why
> 
> the directory can be printed too. Also there is an anomaly in errors 
> related to the directory result in an error message whereas any errors
> 
> extracting to the directory lead to an exception.
> 
> -Alan


I think we might have to defer such big change to the next release. If there's no objections I'd propose to deliver this fix AS IS and open a new enhancement request to re-implement 'extract' method.

Thank you,
Denis.