RFR 8009581: Xpathexception does not honor initcause() (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Apr 30 07:08:11 UTC 2013

On 29/04/2013 11:45 PM, Aleksej Efimov wrote:

Alan, The XPathException class doesn't have any fields only methods (it had a 'cause' method, but it was deleted in suggested fix).

It had a cause field that was deleted not a method, hence the change to the serialized form that Alan is highlighting.

David

And, as I can see,

there is no need to control what information is saved or to append additional information to the serialization stream. So, I think the readObject/writeObject is not required here.

-Aleksej On 04/24/2013 10:17 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 24/04/2013 14:53, Aleksej Efimov wrote:

Hi all,

Can I have a reviews for the following change: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmeetry/8009581/webrev.0/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edmeetry/8009581/webrev.0/> Summary: There is an erroneous behavior in 'initCause' method of javax.xml.xpath.XPathException class. Lets look at the following situation: XPathException is created with 'XPathException(String )' constructor and then the cause is initialized with 'initCause' method. Such initialization sequence of actions isn't restricted by XPathException [1] and Throwable [2] docs. After that a cause is retrieved by 'getCause()' method: this call returns incorrect cause = 'null'. It should return the same cause as was used in 'initCause'. And this is the erroneous behavior. Suggested fix (with regression test) is applicable both for JDK 8 and 7. Exceptions are serializable so I think this may require further investigation to see if a readObject/writeObject is required. -Alan.

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