On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 19:10:46 GMT, Ian Graves <igra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Is the new exception type useful? yes, it matches the previous pattern. >> But it does not (and none of the IllegalFormatException subclasses) produce >> a readable message with the offending value. So the developer will not see >> anything useful. >> The fine grained exceptions provide little value. > > I've been on the fence about this, personally. The Formatter uses pretty > fine-grained exception types for error conditions. I'd be okay discontinuing > this practice here, but am not sure what to replace this with. Perhaps we > enable `IllegalFormatException` to be, itself, public and instantiable ? Updates (including cleaning up some git weirdness with rebasing) include adherence to the new CSR draft proposal. This makes the new exception type package-private. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/516
