Mikhail Loenko wrote:
> Hi Paulex,
>
> 2006/5/25, Yang Paulex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Mikhail,
>>
>> Sorry to response so late, seems both IBM's smtp server and gmail is not
>> stable so that I have to send this mail several times from today before
>> yesterday (please pardon me if the mailing list get several duplicate
>> mails
>> after hundreds of hours! ).
>>
>> Basically, I'm afraid I cannot agree with you on this patch.
>>
>> 1. I have no strong objection on the patch for HttpURLConnection,
>> but...If I
>> understand correctly, Harmony-482 is about the internal contract between
>> java.net.HttpURLConnection.setRequestMethod() and
>> o.a.h.l.internal.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(),
>>
>
> Not exactly. The second problem is that the code makes assumption that
> two String constant-pool constants in two different classes will be the
> same
> object. That is an assumption about VM that is met in J9 and RI.
>
> Other VMs might not have this kind of optimization and the code will not
> work
> on those VMs. I've fixed the code to not depend on that assumption.
The JVM spec requires that String literals are interned using
String.intern, so you are safe to make that assumption.
> Then I had to develop a test that would
> 1. passes on RI
> 2. fails on unfixed Harmony
> 3. passes on fixed Harmony
>
> The code you suggested below passes on unfixed Harmony, so
> it is not a good regression test.
>
>> and the internal contract may be broken only if some of the codes
>> refactored
>> (no chance for user application), say, modification for the
>> setRequestMethod() like this:
>>
>> - this.method = methodTokens[i];
>> + this.method = method;
>>
>> But this can be easily monitored by test codes below:
>>
>> public void testGetOutputStream() throws Exception {
>> HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection) new
>> URL("http://127.0.0.1:";<http://127.0.0.1/>
>> + port).openConnection();
>> c.setDoOutput(true);
>> c.setRequestMethod(new String("GET"));
>> c.getOutputStream();
>>
>> ...//other for POST/PUT
>> }
>>
>> This test is enough to enforced the internal contract, it will shout
>> if some
>> refactory breaks the internal contract. So IMHO, I think the patch for
>> HttpURLConnection is a little over-designed.
>>
>> 2. Even the patch is necessary, I think the introduction of injected
>> java.net.HttpURLConnectionAccessor is debatable. I suggest to avoid the
>> injected helper class as long as possible, because it introduces
>> complexity
>> to understand/manage and is sometimes fragile because it may highly
>> coupled
>> with implementation details. For this specific case, a mocked subclass of
>> o.a.h....HttpURLConnection with overridden getRequestMethod can be used
>> instead.
>
> I partially agree. If you suggest a test that would be easier to
> understand,
> I'll be happy to replace the current one.
IMHO subclassing like this in tests is fine, and where we can't (i.e. to
get access to package private elements) then injecting helpers into the
bootclasspath is a good practice.
Regards,
Tim
>> 2006/5/23, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >
>> > I've created regression test and patch for
>> > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-482
>> >
>> > I had to make some changes in the luni's build.xml,
>> > that are intended to be fixed once we all agree with
>> > proposed test suite layout.
>> >
>> > Please review the changes.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Mikhail
>> >
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>>
>> --
>> Paulex Yang
>> China Software Development Labotary
>> IBM
>>
>>
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