RFR: 8331195: Improve com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpExchange usability [v4]

[robert engels]

On Wed, 1 May 2024 21:12:05 GMT, robert engels <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> improve the HttpExchange api with documented constants and convenience methods to avoid common bugs
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> robert engels has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'robaho/HttpExchange-api-change' into HttpExchange-api-change
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>    # Conflicts:
>    #	src/jdk.httpserver/share/classes/com/sun/net/httpserver/HttpExchange.java
>  - update api changes based on comments

I did not write any tests cases, or even highly review the implementations. They were just examples, with regards to

> The first issue is that if data.length is 0 that starts a chunked transfer where what they'd really want to do is send the NO_CONTENT value of -1.

Yea, the fix is trivial. I don't think it is a hole that requires the Body interface.

I don't think the 'assertion can be invalidated by mistake' - that would be an impl bug - I don't think the code would have this as an issue either.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18955#issuecomment-2089325866