On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:37:57 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Thanks for taking on these null caller issue. > > To give more context to this issue, the spec of > `ClassLoader::isRegisteredAsParallelCapable` returns true if this class > loader is registered as parallel capable, otherwise false. The current spec > does not specify what if the caller class is not a class loader. The current > implementation throws NPE if caller is null. I initially proposed to return > false for simplicity. However, if the caller is not a subclass of > `ClassLoader`, the current implementation throws `ClassCastException`. Both > cases are invalid caller and they should be handled in the same way, either > return false or throw an exception. > > Having a second thought, since this API expects to be called by a class > loader, I think throwing `IllegalCallerException` to indicate this method is > called by an illegal caller. This will need a CSR due to the spec change. > > What do you think? Throwing IllegalCallerException sounds good to me. As a static method, from a language standpoint, the call could appear almost anywhere. But its intended usage is pretty narrow. I think it's worth notifying the developer of a pretty obvious error. Is this method mainly meant to be called from a classloader's static initializer? That might be worth mentioning in the JavaDoc (if we're doing a CSR anyway...). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7448
