RFR 8232622: Technical debt in BadAttributeValueExpException

[serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com]

Hi Roger,

It looks good to me.

Thanks,
Serguei


On 2/13/20 7:52 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> Please review a minor cleanup to remove code long since unnecessary.
> The type of the BadAttributeValueExpException argument is String and
> if it is not a string in the serialized stream, a suitable replacement 
> is created.
>
> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232622
>
> Patch:
>
> diff --git 
> a/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java 
> b/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java 
>
> --- 
> a/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java
> +++ 
> b/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  /*
> - * Copyright (c) 1999, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
> + * Copyright (c) 1999, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved.
>   * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
>   *
>   * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class BadAttributeValueExpExcepti
>       * for example, the string value can be the return of {@code 
> attribute.toString()}
>       */
>      @SuppressWarnings("serial") // See handling in constructor and 
> readObject
> -    private Object val;
> +    private String val;
>
>      /**
>       * Constructs a BadAttributeValueExpException using the specified 
> Object to
> @@ -72,19 +72,8 @@ public class BadAttributeValueExpExcepti
>          ObjectInputStream.GetField gf = ois.readFields();
>          Object valObj = gf.get("val", null);
>
> -        if (valObj == null) {
> -            val = null;
> -        } else if (valObj instanceof String) {
> -            val= valObj;
> -        } else if (System.getSecurityManager() == null
> -                || valObj instanceof Long
> -                || valObj instanceof Integer
> -                || valObj instanceof Float
> -                || valObj instanceof Double
> -                || valObj instanceof Byte
> -                || valObj instanceof Short
> -                || valObj instanceof Boolean) {
> -            val = valObj.toString();
> +        if (valObj instanceof String || valObj == null) {
> +            val = (String)valObj;
>          } else { // the serialized object is from a version without 
> JDK-8019292 fix
>              val = System.identityHashCode(valObj) + "@" + 
> valObj.getClass().getName();
>          }
>
>
> Thanks, Roger