AsynchronousSocketChannel still throws unspecified exception

[cowwoc]

Alan Bateman-2 wrote:
> 
> cowwoc wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Remember in http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/gpYtBJmUMNrbuF39jKmu
>> we
>> discussed that read() should throw a specific exception
>> (IllegalStateException) instead of "an unspecified runtime exception"?
>> You
>> mentioned you would resolve this but it doesn't seem to have happened in
>> the
>> past couple of months. Now, with the JDK7 API being officially "frozen"
>> I'm
>> worried this will never make it in.
>>
>> Is this change going in?
>>   
> Ah boo, I did say we should change this to an IllegalStateException but 
> it didn't happen. My fault. As it's not a critical/showstopper issue 
> then there is little chance that we have fix this now. This means we'll 
> have to re-examine it in 8. It helps that the implementation already 
> throws IllegalStateException for this case and so compatibility risk is 
> confined to other AsynchronousChannel implementations (likely to be 
> few).  As I recall you ran into this with a serial port channel where 
> data loss was acceptable or you could guarantee that no data would be 
> loss, in which case you may already have specified your channel
> differently.
> 
> -Alan.
> 

Can you please provide me with a BugParade number so I can track when this
gets fixed? :)

Thanks,
Gili

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