On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:46:01 GMT, Eirik Bjørsnøs <eir...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this PR which proposes that we officially deprecate the 
>> following four methods in the `java.util.zip` package:
>> 
>> * `Inflater.getTotalIn()`
>> * `Inflater.getTotalOut()`
>> * `Deflater.getTotalIn()`
>> * `Deflater.getTotalOut()`
>> 
>> Since these legacy methods return `int`, they cannot safely return the 
>> number of bytes processed without the risk of losing information  about the 
>> magnitude or even sign of the returned value.
>> 
>> The corresponding methods `getBytesRead()` and `getBytesWritten()` methods 
>> introduced in Java 5 return `long`, and should be used instead when 
>> obtaining this information. 
>> 
>> Unrelated to the deprecation itself, the documentation currently does not 
>> specify what these methods are expected to return when the number of 
>> processed bytes is higher than `Integer.MAX_VALUE`. This PR aims to clarify 
>> this in the API specification.
>> 
>> Initally, this PR handles only `Inflater.getTotalIn()`. The other three 
>> methods will be updated once the wordsmithing for this method stabilizes.
>
> Eirik Bjørsnøs has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 12 additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Use "value" instead of "number of compressed bytes input so far"
>  - Merge branch 'master' into deprecate-total-in-out
>  - Reduce new method description text to one sentence
>  - To align with the Java Language Specification, use "all but the 32 lowest 
> order bits"
>  - Use "highest order bits" instead of "highest bits"
>  - Remove empty line
>  - Add back a note to specify the long-standing behavior of discarding the 
> highest 32 bits of the return value
>  - Use "greater than" instead of "larger than"
>  - Leave first sentence as-is. Simplify the deprecation notice.
>  - Add since="23" to @Deprecated
>  - ... and 2 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/285554fe...8d80c776

The change in [8d80c776] looks fine. If Lance is okay with it then I think go 
ahead and update the other methods too.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17919#issuecomment-1966049658

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