Hi Alan,
On 08/31/2016 01:12 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 31/08/2016 11:33, Richard Opalka wrote:
Hi Jigsaw Team,
There's new ClassLoader::getPlatformClassLoader() method introduced
with project Jigsaw.
There are three ClassLoader::getSystemResource*() methods available
that fallback to BootLoader if SystemClassLoader is not available.
Shouldn't ClassLoader::getPlatformResource*() methods be defined as well
providing similar fallback mechanism?
ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader() should never return null. I see we
have a few residual places that still check for null so some clean-up
needed. The @return description also needs clean-up.
Good to know.
So I'm curious if you have a scenario where there is no system class
loader. Is this instrumentation early in the startup or something
reading a private field, again during early startup, rather than
calling the getSystemClassLoader method?
I don't have such scenario. I asked because I was just curious (it took
my attention). The explanation ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader() can
not return null is satisfactory.
As regards the platform class loader then
ClassLoader.getPlatformClassLoader().getResourceXXX should be the
equivalent of introducing new methods so it hardly seems worth it.
I see. If it's not worth it maybe deprecating
ClassLoader::getSystemResource*() methods would make sense? (Just my
0.02 $)
-Alan
Richard
