RFR: 8209038: Clarify the javadoc of Cipher.getParameters()

Valerie Peng valeriep at openjdk.java.net
Wed Apr 13 21:57:19 UTC 2022


On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:01:19 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xuelei at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> How about this then?
>> 
>>      * <p>The returned parameters may be the same that were used to initialize
>>      * this cipher, or may contain additional default and random parameter
>>      * values used by the underlying cipher implementation if this
>>      * cipher can successfully generate the required parameter values when
>>      * not supplied. Otherwise, {@code null} is returned.
>
> I like the revised spec more. 
> 
> BTW, for "... contain additional default and random parameter values ...", is "or" more common than "and" in English?

Hmm, the original javadoc has "and", so I just picked it up. Perhaps I should change it to "or" then. Thanks.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8117



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