Signature.getAlogrithm return null in special case

Brad Wetmore bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Wed May 15 00:28:55 UTC 2013


Offhand, this seems reasonable.

Since you are an OpenJDK author, I've filed:

     JDK-8014620: Signature.getAlogrithm return null in special case

and stocked it with your patch.

Thanks,

Brad


On 5/13/2013 9:46 PM, Deven You wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I find in a special case: If you create a SignatureSpi service through
> extending Signature rather than SignatureSpi, the returned signature
> instance will lose its algortithm name.
>
> Though the fix[1] is simple I think it's valuable. Could anyone take a look?
>
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~youdwei/ojdk-809/webrev/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eyoudwei/ojdk-809/webrev/>
>
> Thanks a lot



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