>-----Original Message----- >From: Oleg Khaschansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:28 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [classlib][swing] compatibility: j.s.text.GapContent.replace() >behaviour > >+1. Silently doing nothing if invalid parameters are passed seems to >me a right behavior in this case. > >Will someone apply changes to GapContent from the harmony-1975.patch >or we need to make a separate patch for this?
I've created a separate patch which also adds final modifier to three methods which are final according to the spec. There were two votes for silently ignoring BadLocationException which may be thrown from methods implementing replace() in Harmony. There were no other votes. Hence silent ignore was selected. Thanks for everybody who participated. Alexey. > >On 11/2/06, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2006/11/2, Ivanov, Alexey A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've started fixing HARMONY-1809. To remove throws clause from the >> > declaration of replace method, as it was proposed by Oleg in >> > HARMONY-1975, I placed removeItems() and insertItems() calls into >> > try-catch block. This would work OK for any valid arguments. >> > >> > I was going to handle invalid arguments by making adjustments so that >> > the following removeItems() and insertItems() will not throw the >> > exception. After I wrote several tests, I faced strange behaviour of RI >> > with regards to invalid arguments to replace. >> > >> > (The Javadoc say nothing about which valid ranges for replace() >> > parameters as well as any exceptions.) >> > >> > RI accepts invalid arguments but the result differs from what I'd >> > expect. >> > For example, if the content has "text" in it, I'd expect that >> > content.replace(-2, 4, null, 0) would give "xt" as the result. I mean >> > the invalid start position is adjusted to 0, and the length of remove >is >> > adjusted to be 2 accordingly. But this is not the case. As the result >of >> > this call, all characters are removed leaving "" in the content. >> > >> > Moreover the content object becomes unusable after that: >> > content.insertString(0, "1") throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. >> > >> > Similarly if number of characters to be removed is greater than the >> > length of the content (content.replace(2, 4, null, 0) with "text" in >> > it), the object will throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when doing >> > insertString. >> > >> > >> > Considering the fact that GapContent is pretty low-level class in text >> > representation model and that it is protected, I think that Harmony >> > implementation can silently ignore BadLocationException possible thrown >> > from insertItems() and removeItems(). Taking into account erroneous >> > behaviour of RI's replace, we can do that until an application is >> > broken. >> +1 for this solution. >> >> SY, Alexey >> >> > As another option, we can throw an Error from catch block to make >> > application which depends on implementation of replace() fast-fail. >> > >> > >> > Any objections, comments, opinions? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Alexey. >> > >> > >> > P.S. The related JIRA issues: >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1809 >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1975 >> > >> > GapContent Javadoc: >> > >http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/swing/text/GapContent.htm l >> > Description of GapContent.replace: >> > >http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/swing/text/GapContent.htm l >> > #replace(int,%20int,%20java.lang.Object,%20int) >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Alexey A. Ivanov >> > Intel Middleware Product Division >> > >> -- Alexey A. Ivanov Intel Middleware Product Division
