On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:26:54 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which specifies that the 
> `IdentityException` throws a `NullPointerException` if the `Class` passed to 
> its constructor is null?
> 
> This change is being proposed as part of the JEP-401 standard library changes 
> that are currently under review at https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/31123.
> 
> A new jtreg test has been introduced to verify the basic semantics of this 
> exception class.
> 
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src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/IdentityException.java line 52:

> 50:      *
> 51:      * @apiNote
> 52:      * This constructor does not verify that the given {@code clazz} is a 
> value class.

URISyntaxException and InvalidPathException are examples of exceptions with 
specialized constructors (not one of the usual 4) that throw IAE when invoked 
with a bad parameter. I don't know if this was looked at, and rejected, at some 
point.

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PR Review Comment: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2562#discussion_r3435922648

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