Misleading documentation for class java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider (original) (raw)

Christian Schulte cs at schulte.it
Thu Dec 6 17:26:10 UTC 2012


Hello,

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The JDK 7 documentation of class java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider states the following:

[...] Charset providers are looked up via the current thread's context class loader. [...]

Looking at method 'private static Iterator providers()' of class 'java.nio.charset.Charset', the above documentation seems incorrect since that method uses the system class loader.

ClassLoader cl = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader(); ServiceLoader sl = ServiceLoader.load(CharsetProvider.class, cl);

Is this intended ?

Regards,

-- Christian Schulte



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