RFR 8048840: File.createTempFile has uninformative failure message (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Jul 1 08:34:43 UTC 2014


On 01/07/2014 02:21, Jeremy Manson wrote:

Oops - forgot to run jtreg. Make that:

diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java b/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java --- a/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java +++ b/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java @@ -1998,7 +1998,8 @@ throws IOException { if (prefix.length() < 3) - throw new IllegalArgumentException("Prefix string too short"); + throw new IllegalArgumentException("Prefix string too short: " + + prefix); I assume you meant to "+ prefix" here, in which case the change seems okay to me. The update to the NulFile test seems okay too.

As a side point then I think the need for a prefix is somewhat legacy now and this API could be re-visited some day.

-Alan.



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