> Le 29 mai 2017 à 11:46, Jan Matèrne (jhm) <apa...@materne.de> a écrit :
> 
> Sounds like I would do ;)
> I'll merge the PR locally and insert the delegates.
> 
> Open is
> "src/java/org/apache/ivy/osgi/util/Version.java: 
>  the constructor removes the (IMO unneccessary) ParseException. 
>  But because it is a checked Exception we break BC."
> 
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Evolving_Java-based_APIs_2 defines the removal of a 
> checked exception:
> "Breaks compatibility"
> "Adding and deleting checked exceptions declared as thrown by an API method 
>  does not break binary compatibility; however, 
>  it breaks contract compatibility (and source code compatibility)."
> 
> What do we want?

Thanks for the link, I’ll bookmark it.

Then I am OK with that. The Ivy jar can still be a upgraded without worries, 
and if somebody compile against it, then he has the source so he can modify 
them.

I am OK with that also because having stricter compatibility rules will be 
painful considering the wide API Ivy is exposing.

Nicolas

> 
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: J Pai [mailto:jai.forums2...@gmail.com]
>> Gesendet: Montag, 29. Mai 2017 10:26
>> An: Ant Developers List
>> Betreff: Re: PR-33: problems
>> 
>> IMO, for each of these public classes/methods/fields that we are fixing
>> for typos, we should mark them @Deprecated (and add a @deprecated
>> javadoc too and point to the new field/method/class) and introduce the
>> rightly named class/method/field. For methods it’s straightforward, the
>> deprecated method internally calls the new method. For fields too it’s
>> straightforward. The deprecated field uses the value of the new field.
>> For classes, I think we can copy over the existing class into the new
>> one and leave around the existing one just for possible external
>> references (that we can’t control off) and migrate all internal
>> references to the new one.
>> 
>> At some point, in some future version of Ivy, we remove/delete these
>> deprecated method/field/class.
>> 
>> 
>> -Jaikiran
>> 
>> 
>> On 29-May-2017, at 1:43 PM, Jan Matèrne <j...@materne.de> wrote:
>> 
>> I did a review of  <https://github.com/apache/ant-ivy/pull/33>
>> https://github.com/apache/ant-ivy/pull/33
>> 
>> Here are the points I have problems with, so I want to discuss them
>> here.
>> 
>> Basically it's about breaking BC. So how to deal with that?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Fixing the spell error in DelegateHandler$ChildElementHandler
>> (s/childHanlded/childHandled/) means breaking beakward compatiblity.
>> 
>> We could introduce a delegetate for that:
>> 
>> /** for BC */
>> 
>> @Deprecated
>> 
>> public void childHanlded(DH child) throws SAXParseException {
>> 
>>   childHandled(DH child);
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> While refactoring you have renamed all occurences in the Ivy codebase.
>> 
>> On the other hand I don't know the impact (maybe outside of Ivy). I'll
>> bring that to the dev-list.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> src/java/org/apache/ivy/osgi/repo/FSManifestIterable.java: renaming the
>> public constant DEFAULT_BUNLDE_FILTER also means breaking BC.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> src/java/org/apache/ivy/osgi/util/Version.java: the constructor removes
>> the (IMO unneccessary) ParseException. But because it is a checked
>> Exception we break BC.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> renaming EncrytedProperties to EncryptedProperties means breaking BC.
>> If required we could introduce a delegating class or a subclass.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ArtifactOrigin: renaming unkwnown() to unknown() means breaking BC. If
>> required we could introduce a delegating method.
>> 
>> 
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