code review request: 6856069 PrincipalName.clone() does not invoke super.clone()

[Weijun Wang]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:

> Max,
> 
> Good catch to find this bug!
> 
> Some comments:
> 1) I don't get why salt now becomes transient. I don't see that it has
>   any effect on how the object is cloned and class is not Serializable.

Reversed. I just had a habit to mark all non-core data as transient, be it in serialization or clone. Not necessary anyway.

> 
> 2) You should be able to remove L128 in the new file. The cloned object
>   will have same value for nameType, and since it is a primitive there
>   shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> 3) You should be able to replace the arraycopy with nameStrings.clone().
>   The array elements are immutable Strings, right?

Correct!

Webrev updated at --

    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/6856069/webrev.01/

Thanks
Max

P.S. Oh I hate the latest Google Chrome browser removes http:// in the address bar: have to manually add here.

> 
> -Chris.
> 
> On 21/04/2010 04:56, Weijun Wang wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Anyone can review this code change?
>> 
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/6856069/webrev.00/
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Max
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> *Change Request ID*: 6856069
>>> *Synopsis*: PrincipalName.clone() does not invoke super.clone()
>>> 
>>> === *Description* ============================================================
>>> PrincipalName's clone() method does not invoke super.clone(), and it has a child class ServiceName. This means the clone of a ServiceName object is not of type ServiceName.
>>> 
>>> See "Effective Java" Item 10.
>>> 
>>> *** (#1 of 1): 2009-06-30 07:34:10 GMT+00:00 weijun.wang at sun.com
>>