RE: trySetAccessible​

[Stephen Felts]

Right.
We need an API that returns false with no warning.


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bateman 
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 5:56 AM
To: Cédric Champeau
Cc: jigsaw-dev
Subject: Re: trySetAccessible​

On 10/07/2017 09:49, Cédric Champeau wrote:
> I second Uwe's comment here: I was surprised as well, I expected the 
> semantics of `trySetAccessible` to be: "let me know if I can do this, 
> respecting the semantics of modules, and if not, return false"
For the example, trySetAccessible succeeds (returns `true`) because `java.lang` is open.  If you run with `--illegal-access=deny` then `java.lang` will not be opened and trySetAccessible should return `false`.

-Alan