RFR: 4619075: (ch) newChannel() should return Gathering/ScatteringByteChannel

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:04:37 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Modify `Channels.newChannel(InputStream)` and `Channels.newChannel(OutputStream)` to return `ScatteringByteChannel` and `GatheringByteChannel`, respectively.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/channels/Channels.java line 271:

> 269:      * @return  A new readable byte channel
> 270:      */
> 271:     public static ScatteringByteChannel newChannel(InputStream in) {

This looks like a binary incompatible change, are you sure that existing code won't fail at runtime with NoSuchMethodError?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5922