RFR: 8356154: Respecify java.net.Socket constructors that allow creating UDP sockets to throw IllegalArgumentException [v3]

Jaikiran Pai jpai at openjdk.org
Tue May 6 07:26:07 UTC 2025


On Tue, 6 May 2025 06:30:27 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/Socket.java line 384:
>> 
>>> 382:      * stream socket. Only stream socket creation is allowed. If the stream
>>> 383:      * argument is {@code false}, then this constructor throws
>>> 384:      * {@code IllegalArgumentException}.
>> 
>> I would be tempted to drop this paragraph and just change the description of the `@param stream` to say "must be true".
>
> I re-read this paragraph again today and I think it would be better to remove it completely from both constructors.

In my previous round I misread that the review comment was on SocketImpl class, so I never did apply the review changes on these `Socket` constructor. 

I've now updated the PR to drop this paragraph from both these constructors. I'll update the CSR if this and the rest changes look good.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25031#discussion_r2074868700


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