On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:27:39 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to remove the 
>> (internal) `SelectVersion()` function from the java launcher and also update 
>> the code comments in the launcher to match the current implementation?
>> 
>> As noted in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8340114, the 
>> `SelectVersion()` function in the launcher used to be relevant when JRE 
>> selection was a feature. That feature has been removed since Java 9 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8058407. The SelectVersion() in its 
>> current form isn't relevant anymore and can be removed.
>> 
>> While at it, it was noticed that the current "flowchart" code comments in 
>> the launcher which attempts to explain the flow in the launcher code are 
>> outdated. The commit in this PR updates those comments for macosx and unix 
>> implementation. The windows variant doesn't have a "flowchart", but it too 
>> deserves a high level comment explaining this flow. I haven't updated the 
>> windows variant in this PR because that does a few additional things, which 
>> I need to review and understand better. I plan to take that up in a future 
>> change.
>> 
>> An existing 
>> `test/jdk/tools/launcher/MultipleJRERemoved.java/MultipleJRERemoved` test 
>> had to be updated due to the changes in this PR. That test was launching 
>> `java` (once) with 3 unsupported JRE selection options and was expecting 3 
>> error messages (one each for the unsupported option) for that single launch. 
>> With the change in this PR, we don't accumulate and throw all those 3 errors 
>> and instead we fail fast for any of these 3 unsupported JRE selection 
>> options. The fail fast implementation matches what we do with other similar 
>> unsupported options. The test had to be updated to not expect all 3 errors 
>> message in a single launch and instead expect to find one of those error 
>> messages. Given what this test is for, and the fact that JRE version 
>> selection options (rightly) continue to raise an error after this change, I 
>> think, an update to that test should be OK.
>> 
>> No new tests have been introduced in this PR and tier testing is currently 
>> in progress.
>
> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   treat -version: -jre-restrict-search and -jre-no-restrict-search like any 
> other unknown option

Great to see this further simplification.

I agree no CSR request needed as all that happens is the error message changes.

Thanks

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20997#pullrequestreview-2311571248

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