FileRef.checkAccess(null) throws IAE in Win and NPE in Sol?

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 1 03:26:02 PDT 2008


Rajendra Gutupalli wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I started changing my test cases to sync with b94. I did a quick test 
> with Path.checkAccess(null) and observed it throws IAE in windows and 
> NPE in Solaris for the Argument null.
> Should it throw NPE in Windows?
Yes - thanks! Looks like this has been there for a while. Related to 
this, I need to do a pass over all these methods that are intended to be 
extended in the future to ensure that the right exceptions are 
specified. I see a few cases where IAE is incorrect or UOE is missing.

-Alan.



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