Integrated: 8316734: URLEncoder should specify that replacement bytes will be used in case of coding error

Darragh Clarke dclarke at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 29 13:02:14 UTC 2023


On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:15:46 GMT, Darragh Clarke <dclarke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Currently the descriptions of `URLEncoder.encode` and `URLDecoder.decode` don't specify their use of replacement bytes or replacement character when they cannot handle a character or sequence of bytes. This is longstanding behavior but needs to be documented.
> 
> **Solution**
> - Added a new line to `URLEncoder.encode` API documentation to document that the charset's replacement bytes are used.
> 
> - Also changed `URLDecoder.decode` API documentation to document its use of the charset's replacement character, also changed some wording.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 48960df7
Author:    Darragh Clarke <dclarke at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/48960df7bcb307a3b3353a1d513ddd4b3c0284ce
Stats:     24 lines in 2 files changed: 11 ins; 7 del; 6 mod

8316734: URLEncoder should specify that replacement bytes will be used in case of coding error

Reviewed-by: dfuchs, alanb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16709


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