RFR: 8359809: AttributeList, RoleList and UnresolvedRoleList should never accept other types of Object

[Serguei Spitsyn]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:54:15 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The classes javax.management.AttributeList, and javax.management.relation.RoleList and UnresolvedRoleList, have a historical feature where they accept objects of the wrong type, and only check for wrong objects when the "asList()" method is called.
> 
> This feature should be removed, and these classes should never accept the wrong kind of Object.

Joe asked a question in related CSR. I'm also interested to know the answer. :)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25856#issuecomment-3003393244