RFR 8147772: Some KerberosTicket methods throw NPE after being destroyed

Wang Weijun weijun.wang at oracle.com
Wed Jan 20 13:52:56 UTC 2016


You mean let them throw an ISE after destroyed? Not sure if it is backportable.

The problem is reported by customers using an old JRE.

--Max

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 9:36 PM, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 01/19/2016 10:32 PM, Wang Weijun wrote:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8147772/webrev.00/
>> 
>> No spec change, just safer return value.
> 
> I think it would be useful to update the specification to indicate how these methods behave when the object has been destroyed. I also noticed that many of the methods do not declare that they throw IllegalStateException when destroyed, so I think a general cleanup of the specification would be a good thing to do as part of this issue for JDK 9.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean




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