<Swing Dev> [11][JDK-8197785]javax.accessibility.AccessibilityBundle will reload the ResourceBundle for every call to toDisplayString

[semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com]

On 3/7/18 10:40 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:

> On 07/03/2018 10:21, semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com wrote:
>>> That's not ok, since we change a behavior without discussion that 
>>> the benefits of change outweigh the disadvantages, when we 
>>> implemented some unrelated fix.
>> That's not true. You may find the discussion in the current thread. 
>> Fill free to provide your arguments to it.
>
> I found nothing related to the behavior, only some conclusion about 
> possible performance difference.
So you agree?
>
>>>> It is an improvement. NPE is not expected result according to the 
>>>> toDisplayString() method spec.
>>>
>>> It also changed result of toDisplayString(), previously it did not 
>>> returned null. I think .01 is better and simpler.
>>>
>> Returning null is better than throwing NPE especially in the case 
>> when NPE doesn't correspond to the spec. Krishna kindly agreed to fix 
>> both issues at once. I didn't get what is the problem?
>
> Nope, if the method start to return null means that all its usage 
> should be checked for null return value. 
You always should check for null return if the spec does not say that 
null is never returned. In this specific case if null check is absent 
the NPE will be thrown in the user code instead of JDK code, so there is 
no degradation.
> As I said it is better to use version .01 which fixed the problem w/o 
> side effects.
>
Thanks for your advice. Try to provide more arguments next time.
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