Integrated: 8332623: Remove setTTL()/getTTL() methods from DatagramSocketImpl/MulticastSocket and MulticastSocket.send(DatagramPacket, byte)

Jaikiran Pai jpai at openjdk.org
Tue Jun 17 08:34:38 UTC 2025


On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:05:28 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to remove the deprecated-for-removal methods from `MulticastSocket` and `DatagramSocketImpl`? 
> 
> The following methods on `java.net.MulticastSocket` and `java.net.DatagramSocketImpl`:
> 
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> public void setTTL(byte ttl) throws IOException
> public byte getTTL() throws IOException
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> and this other one on `MulticastSocket`:
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> public void send(DatagramPacket p, byte ttl) throws IOException 
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> 
> have been deprecated for removal since Java 23, through https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8332181. Even before that they have been deprecated since Java 1.2 and Java 1.4.
> 
> The commit in this PR removes them completely. This PR also removes some tests that were specifically testing the `setTTL()/getTTL()/send(DatagramPacket, byte)` methods. A few other tests have been adjusted to use the alternate `getTimeToLive()/setTimeToLive()` methods where appropriate.
> 
> Existing tests in tier1, tier2 and tier3 continue to pass with these changes.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: f7cd3fad
Author:    Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/f7cd3fad2400cd3a07d8a3a44d86d5dc4d23913e
Stats:     445 lines in 19 files changed: 0 ins; 420 del; 25 mod

8332623: Remove setTTL()/getTTL() methods from DatagramSocketImpl/MulticastSocket and MulticastSocket.send(DatagramPacket, byte)

Reviewed-by: dfuchs, alanb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25744


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