Regarding 8220575: Correctly format test URI's that contain a retrieved IPv6 address

[Arthur Eubanks]

Sounds good, I'll work on that.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:02 AM Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> > On 19 Mar 2019, at 15:31, Arthur Eubanks <aeubanks at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > (Sorry for the late response, I keep getting sidetracked by other stuff)
> >
> > Is there a reason you're trying to deprecate the URL constructors?
>
> Yes, they are generally more error-prone than using URI, since they
> don’t encode illegal characters in the various components.
>
> > And if we end up not using the URL constructors, then I still think it
> would be nice to have a test library, since it's easy to forget to add the
> "[]". Unless we fix up all the existing tests and you'll be sure to catch
> any future bad uses of the loopback address in URLs in tests :)
>
> Test library support would be fine. ( it would require some additional
> jtreg tags and imports, but that is not a reason to avoid it )
>
> If we do add test library support, then maybe we could take the
> opportunity to construct it in a way where we could gain experience for
> future possible projects, e.g.
>
>    URIBuilder.newBuilder()
>           .scheme("http")
>           .host("www.example.com")
>           .path("/sample")
>           .query("version=12")
>           .build()
>           .toURL();
>
> With suitable encoding / raw variants. Daniel has prototyped something
> similar for the URI update investigation work.
>
> -Chris.
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