RFR JDK-8028397: Undo the lenient MIME BASE64 decoder support change (JDK-8025003) and remove methods de/encode(buf, buf)

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/12/2013 19:25, Xueming Shen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Based on the feedback so far here is the latest webrev, and the link 
> to the bug.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8028397/webrev
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8028397
>
> During the discussion it became clearthat methods 
> decode/encode(ByteBuffer,
> ByteBuffer) are insufficient to support the continuous de/encoding
> operation request ("underflow" handling, in charset coder's term).
> Given the assumed usage for these methods is for de/encoding the bytes
> from io channels, I have been convinced it might be more useful/desired
> to provide a pair of wrap methods instead for 
> readable/writableByteChannel,
> same as the pair we have now for in/output stream (the wrap methods
> are under development, but will probably be for future releases). For
> jdk8 the proposal is to remove the pair of de/encode(Buffer, ByteBuffer),
> as showed in the webrev.
>
I think this is the right thing to do and the changes in the webrev look 
okay to me (and easy to review as it's just an undo of a recent change 
plus the removal of two methods).

-Alan.