RFR 8147772: Some KerberosTicket methods throw NPE after being destroyed

[Sean Mullan]

On 01/20/2016 09:13 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
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>> On Jan 20, 2016, at 10:14 PM, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 01/20/2016 08:52 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
>>> You mean let them throw an ISE after destroyed? Not sure if it is backportable.
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>> No, I am just talking about documenting existing behavior, ex:
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>> For these methods, I would add:
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>> This method returns null if the ticket has been destroyed.
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> They don't return null, an NPE is thrown. So I have to fix it in some way.

Sorry, I meant to say "document the new behavior for the methods in this 
webrev and existing behavior for the other methods with respect to when 
the ticket has been destroyed."

--Sean

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> --Max
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>> For other methods that already throw ISE, I would add:
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>> @throws IllegalStateException if the ticket has been destroyed
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>> --Sean
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>>> The problem is reported by customers using an old JRE.
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>>> --Max
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>>>> On Jan 20, 2016, at 9:36 PM, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 01/19/2016 10:32 PM, Wang Weijun wrote:
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8147772/webrev.00/
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>>>>> No spec change, just safer return value.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sean
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