Michael,
The test compares the hash of the data sent by the server to the hash of
the data received by the client. This validates the chunked input stream
implementation. The hash of the data sent by the server is computed and
stored in serverMac (byte[]). serverMac is not set until after all the
data is sent, at which point the client thread can proceed to do the
comparison, but serverMac may not have been set yet.
MessageDigest.isEqual blows up with NullPointerException.
In fact, this test (ChunkedEncodingTest) does not even used chunked
encoding. The server invokes sendResponseHeaders with the
MESSAGE_LENGTH. This causes the content-length header to be set in the
response and for an output stream to be created to transfer the response
body. The test should invoke sendResponseHeader with 0 to use chunked
encoding. This also fixes the race condition since the serverMac is set
before the output stream is closed, and since we're using chunked
encoding the final is not written until the output stream is closed.
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6980517/webrev.00/webrev/
-Chris.
