Review request for 8035807: Convert use of sun.misc.BASE64Encoder/Decoder with java.util.Base64 (original) (raw)

Xueming Shen xueming.shen at oracle.com
Fri Mar 21 05:54:21 UTC 2014

Obj.java:#482 It appears sun.misc.BASE64Decoder.decodeBuffer(String) uses String's deprecated String.getBytes(int srcBegin, int srcEnd, byte[] dst, int dstBegin). The proposed change now uses the jvm's default charset. It might trigger incompatible behavior if the default charset is not an ASCII compatible charset. But if the "Java object in LDAP was encoded with the platform default charset" (as the new comment suggested), the old implementation actually did not work on platform that the default encoding is not ASCII compatible, such as the IBM ebcdic.

-Sherman

On 3/20/14 3:48 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:

On 3/19/14 12:28 PM, Xueming Shen wrote:

On 03/19/2014 11:37 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035807

Webrev at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8035807/webrev.00/ This patch converts the last 2 references to sun.misc.BASE64Encoder/Decoder from the jdk repo with java.util.Base64. We should also update the tests and I have filed JDK-8037873 for that. Thanks Mandy The sun.misc.BASE64En/Decoder is MIME type, so it outputs the \r\n per 76 characters during encoding, and ignores/skip \r or \n when decoding. The new Base64.getEncoder/Decoder() returns the "basic" Base64 coder, which it never inserts line separator when output, and throws exception for any non-base64- alphabet character, including \r and \n. The only disadvantage/incompatibility (j.u.Base64.getMimeDecoer() vs sun.misc.BASE64Decoder) of switching to j.u.Base64 MIME type en/decoder is that the Base64 Mime decoder ignores/skips any non-base64-alphabet (including \r and \n), while sun.misc.BASE64Decoder appears to simply use the init value "-1" for any non-base64-alphabet character for decoding. I'm not familiar with the use scenario of ldap's Obj class, so I'm not sure if it matters (if it ever outputs/inputs > 76 character data, or even it does,if the difference matters). Btw, except getMimeEncoder(int ...) all other Base64.getXXXEn/Decoder() returns singleton, so the de/encoder cache might not be necessary. Thanks Sherman. Vinnie confirms that it should retain the current behavior as there could be long-lived Java object in LDAP encoded with JDK 8 for example and then retrieved with JDK 9. Here is the updated webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8035807/webrev.01/ Thanks Mandy

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