<Swing Dev> The method XMLEncoder.writeObject(TreePath) goes into infinite recursion

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Hi Sergey,

first I want to thank you for your answer. Does it mean, that this bug 
won't be repaired in JDK 6 or is it possible to put new/refactored code 
(finder package mentioned) to JDK 6 too?

Pavel

Sergey Malenkov wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> Thank you for your report. The 6423060 CR is already exist:
> PIT: java/beans/MetaData/6402062/TestTreePath.java test fails on 
> cinnabar and RHAS3 platforms.
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6423060
> 
> The problem was in the java.beans.ReflectionUtils class, that was 
> refactored in JDK 7 and replaced with the com.sun.beans.finder package. 
> Now the issue can't be reproduced with JDK 7.
> 
> Thanks,
> SAM
> 
> Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the method XMLEncoder.writeObject() goes into infinite recursion, when 
>> object to be marshalled is of type TreePath. This bug (which causes
>> StackOverflowException, of course) occurs in Sun JDK (6) as well in 
>> OpenJDK6.
>>
>> Tested on: OpenJDK6 and IcedTead6-1.6 @ Fedora 10 (i386) and RHEL 5.3 
>> (x86_64)
>>
>> This bug also causes failures of regression test 
>> /java/beans/XMLEncoder/javax_swing_tree_TreePath.java
>> (at least on systems mentioned above).
>>
>> Very simple application, which fails after calling 
>> XMLEncoder.writeObject(TreePath) can be downloaded from
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/attachment.cgi?id=152
>>
>> However I don't have patch for this bug (at least yet) and I'm not 
>> sure, if I have to report this issue on http://bugs.sun.com or if 
>> somebody already working on this bug. Have you got any suggestions?
>>
>> Pavel Tisnovsky
>