RFR: 8332623: Remove setTTL()/getTTL() methods from DatagramSocketImpl/MulticastSocket and MulticastSocket.send(DatagramPacket, byte) [v3]

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:07:51 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to remove the deprecated-for-removal methods from `MulticastSocket` and `DatagramSocketImpl`? 
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>> The following methods on `java.net.MulticastSocket` and `java.net.DatagramSocketImpl`:
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>> public void setTTL(byte ttl) throws IOException
>> public byte getTTL() throws IOException
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>> and this other one on `MulticastSocket`:
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>> public void send(DatagramPacket p, byte ttl) throws IOException 
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>> have been deprecated for removal since Java 23, through https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8332181. Even before that they have been deprecated since Java 1.2 and Java 1.4.
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>> The commit in this PR removes them completely. This PR also removes some tests that were specifically testing the `setTTL()/getTTL()/send(DatagramPacket, byte)` methods. A few other tests have been adjusted to use the alternate `getTimeToLive()/setTimeToLive()` methods where appropriate.
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>> Existing tests in tier1, tier2 and tier3 continue to pass with these changes.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Daniel's review - continue to test MulticastSocket in SendCheck

Marked as reviewed by dfuchs (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25744#pullrequestreview-2917111623