6341887: Inflater can't handle ByteBuffer

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/03/2012 20:50, Martin Kirst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in contribute some work to openJdk.
> I found the Sun BUG:
>  6341887 "Inflater.setInput(), Inflater.inflate() can't handle 
> ByteBuffer".
>
> After digging a little in the mailing archives I found nothing.
>
> After successfully building JDK8 from source,
> I would like to go ahead and code some patches.
>
> Are there any ideas around?
> Pros/Cons?
>
> Regards
>  Martin
>
> PS: According to the contribution guideline,
>  I'm not asking for support but for some discussion ;-)
>
I assume you've read the "How to contribute" page: 
http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/

Otherwise I would go ahead and bring your patch to core-libs-dev. 
Sherman has already added update(ByteBuffer) methods to CRC32 and 
Adler32 but not the Inflater/Deflater classes.

-Alan