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

[Chris Hegarty]

On 21/04/2010 12:24, Weijun Wang wrote:
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> On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
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>> Max,
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>> 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.
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> Reversed. I just had a habit to mark all non-core data as transient, be it in serialization or clone. Not necessary anyway.
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>> 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.
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>> 3) You should be able to replace the arraycopy with nameStrings.clone().
>>    The array elements are immutable Strings, right?
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> Correct!
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> Webrev updated at --
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>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/6856069/webrev.01/

Thanks Max, this looks much cleaner now.

-Chris.

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> Thanks
> Max
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> P.S. Oh I hate the latest Google Chrome browser removes http:// in the address bar: have to manually add here.
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>>
>> -Chris.
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>> On 21/04/2010 04:56, Weijun Wang wrote:
>>> Hi
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>>> Anyone can review this code change?
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>>>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/6856069/webrev.00/
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>>> Thanks
>>> Max
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>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>>> *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.
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>>>> *** (#1 of 1): 2009-06-30 07:34:10 GMT+00:00 weijun.wang at sun.com
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