RFR 8063087: policytool reports error message with prefix of "java.lang.Exception"

[Wang Weijun]

A subclass of Exception would also return true when using instanceof, where I think the class name is still informational.

--Max

> On Nov 11, 2014, at 11:14, Xuelei Fan <xuelei.fan at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Why not use "instanceof"?
> 
> Xuelei
> 
> On 11/11/2014 10:58 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
>> Please review the fix at
>> 
>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8063087/webrev.00/
>> 
>> which is simply
>> 
>>     void displayErrorDialog(Window w, Throwable t) {
>>         if (t instanceof NoDisplayException) {
>>             return;
>>         }
>> 
>> +        if (t.getClass() == Exception.class) {
>> +            displayErrorDialog(w, t.getLocalizedMessage());
>> +        } else {
>>         displayErrorDialog(w, t.toString());
>> +        }
>>     }
>> 
>> Error messages like "java.lang.Exception:No Policy Entry selected" is now "No Policy Entry selected". For other exception types, there will be no change.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Max
>> 
>