On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:52:54 GMT, Stuart Marks <sma...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> One special case is the **public field** in `WriteAbortedException`. This is > really bad and something ought to be done about this, including deprecation, > and maybe more. This implies that the exception is mutable, right? Hrrmph. > Isn't there a general rule that once the cause has been set (either via a > constructor or via initCause) the exception is immutable? Maybe the field > should be deprecated, and `getCause()` should return the cause from the > superclass. That's a behavior change of course, and I don't know how to > assess the compatibility impact. But the current situation just seems wrong. Agreed. WriteAbortedException should get similar treatment as the others like it: - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmeetry/8009581/webrev.5/ - http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-May/016908.html - http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/017594.html - https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-February/051341.html The only twist is that we would have to keep the public field as deprecated. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3182
