RFR[15] JDK-8245134: test/lib/jdk/test/lib/security/KeyStoreUtils.java should allow to specify aliases

[Valerie Peng]

On 5/20/2020 7:38 PM, sha.jiang at oracle.com wrote:
>
>> - line 176, maybe it's better to just supply the type, clearer and 
>> less dependency.
>>
> Not get this point.
> Could you please describe some more?

I mean to change line 176 as below (see the added text in blue):

176 return createTrustStore(DEFAULT_TYPE, certStrs, null);


>> With this extra aliases argument, number of createTrustStore(...) 
>> methods doubled from 2 to 4, number of createKeyStore(...) methods 
>> also doubled from 4 to 8. Isn't it a bit much to have 8 methods doing 
>> the same thing? Especially in the case of createKeyStore(...), quite 
>> a few of them have long list of arguments with the same type, 
>> combining this with the large number of methods, it can get confusing 
>> on which method is called. How often do you think the aliases are 
>> supplied? Maybe we only add methods which will be used instead of 
>> adding all possible combinations.
>>
> I'll remove 4 createKeyStore(...) methods (like the below one) that 
> have long list of arguments.
> createKeyStore(String type, String[] keyAlgos,
>             String[] keyStrs, String[] passwords, String[] certStrs,
>             String[] aliases)
> It looks no test is using them. My tests also won't use them.

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Valerie
>
> Best regards,
> John Jiang
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Valerie
>> On 5/15/2020 11:40 PM, sha.jiang at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> This patch adds some new createTrustStore() and createKeyStore() 
>>> methods to test
>>> lib class jdk.test.lib.security.KeyStoreUtils.
>>> These new methods allow to pass trust/key store aliases in.
>>>
>>> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8245134
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjiang/8245134/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> John Jiang
>>>
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