7081804: Remove cause field from javax.xml.crypto.NoSuchMechnismException

[Sebastian Sickelmann]

Am 01.10.2011 18:19, schrieb Sean Mullan:
> On 9/30/11 2:15 PM, Sebastian Sickelmann wrote:
>>>> I think I know the reason. If you allow initCause to be called when a
>>>> cause is
>>>> not initially provided, then getCause will still return null, which
>>>> seems wrong.
>>>>
>>> getCause() of Throwable and all classes that doesn't had a chaining
>>> before
>>> Throwable introduces it, doing this excact this way. Whats wrong on this?
>>>
>>>          return (cause==this ? null : cause); // Where the initial
>>> value(uninitialied) of cause is this.
>> Does this make sense? I actually not sure i understand you right.
> The following code:
>
>          KeySelectorException kse = new KeySelectorException("foo");
>          kse.initCause(new Exception("bar"));
>          System.out.println(kse.getCause());
>
> prints null as the cause, even though initCause was subsequently called. Do you
> see my concern?
This is one of the places in code which must be changes to match the 
initCause behavoir of Throwable.

I have done it here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43692695/oss-patches/openjdk8/NoSuchMechanismException/7011804_5/index.html

But is this the best way? Or should we just follow the other Exceptions 
and start an seperate discussion on this with core-libs-dev?

>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43692695/oss-patches/openjdk8/NoSuchMechanismException/7011804_4/index.html
> Thanks!
> --Sean
>