Hi:

I'd like to raise the topic on I18N of native code. As discussed about patch-815, we found there are exceptions thrown by native code with un-internationalized error message. To resolve this problem, there may be two solutions:

1) make native code return error code instead of throw exceptions, and let Java code deal with these errors. This seems pretty good, and also resolve such problems like 815, but require much more effort to refactor all native and Java codes. What's more, as some native methods do not return an integer at all, we may add an output parameter to them, at least for network-related luni/nio, there are about 10 methods like this.

2) As it is still easy for native code to call Java code, so rewrite error-message-lookup native method to lookup internationalized message, e.g., call MsgUtil.getString(). This refactor may be easy, but to JIRA-815 and other message-dependent Java code, it do no help. So it still requires other refactoring, e.g., return error code in some situation like suggested in (1).

Another solution can be: catch exceptions on Java code, replace its message, and throw out again, this may be too ugly, so I do not suggest so.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Best Regards!

Jimmy, Jing Lv
China Software Development Lab, IBM

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