Hi,
You are right. For public Cleanable API, only the PhantomCleanable is
used currently. It is subclassed by CleanerImpl.PhantomCleanableRef to
implement the public API and also a couple of specialized internal
implementations. When the public Cleanable API was created, it was
thought that there might be internal needs for Weak and Soft variants
too. So these classes are still waiting for such use. Perhaps they could
be retired and resurrected from VCS history when need arises.
Regards, Peter
On 8/15/20 9:00 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Florian Weimer:
* Alan Bateman:
On 01/08/2020 10:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
Are jdk.internal.ref.SoftCleanable and jdk.internal.ref.WeakCleanable
actually used?
CleanerTest rests them, but I don't see any other mentions of these
classes.
Do you mean used outside of the cleaner implementation? Maybe you are
looking to change them to non-public?
It's not clear to me how the cleaner implementation itself uses them.
java.lang.ref.Cleaner only needs PhantomCleanableRef.
Any further comments on this topic? Thanks.
