RFR: 8356154: Respecify java.net.Socket constructors that allow creating UDP sockets to throw IllegalArgumentException [v4]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Mon, 5 May 2025 14:18:26 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to respecify the 2 `java.net.Socket` constructors that allow construction of UDP sockets? This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8356154.
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>> As noted in that JBS issue, in Java 23 we deprecated for removal the 2 `Socket` constructors that allowed UDP socket creation. The plan continues to be to remove those constructors. Before removing those, in order to allow for applications to notice this deprecation, these constructors are now being respecified to throw an `IllegalArgumentException` when the `stream` parameter is `false`.
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>> I will create a CSR once we settle on these changes.
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>> tier1 through tier8 tests have been run with this change and no related failures have been noticed.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   additional changes to SocketImpl.create(...) API javadoc based on review suggestions

I've created a CSR https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8356225 and is ready for review.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25031#issuecomment-2853264676