On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 14:54:26 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfu...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Deprecate URL constructors. Developers are encouraged to use `java.net.URI`
>> to parse or construct any URL.
>>
>> The `java.net.URL` class does not itself encode or decode any URL components
>> according to the escaping mechanism defined in RFC2396. It is the
>> responsibility of the caller to encode any fields, which need to be escaped
>> prior to calling URL, and also to decode any escaped fields, that are
>> returned from URL.
>>
>> This has lead to many issues in the past. Indeed, if used improperly, there
>> is no guarantee that `URL::toString` or `URL::toExternalForm` will lead to a
>> URL string that can be parsed back into the same URL. This can lead to
>> constructing misleading URLs. Another issue is with `equals()` and
>> `hashCode()` which may have to perform a lookup, and do not take
>> encoding/escaping into account.
>>
>> In Java SE 1.4 a new class, `java.net.URI`, has been added to mitigate some
>> of the shortcoming of `java.net.URL`. Conversion methods to create a URL
>> from a URI were also added. However, it was left up to the developers to use
>> `java.net.URI`, or not. This RFE proposes to deprecate all public
>> constructors of `java.net.URL`, in order to provide a stronger warning about
>> their potential misuses. To construct a URL, using `URI::toURL` should be
>> preferred.
>>
>> In order to provide an alternative to the constructors that take a stream
>> handler as parameter, a new factory method `URL::fromURI(java.net.URI,
>> java.net.URLStreamHandler)` is provided as part of this change.
>>
>> Places in the JDK code base that were constructing `java.net.URL` have been
>> temporarily annotated with `@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")`. Some related
>> issues will be logged to revisit the calling code.
>>
>> The CSR can be reviewed here: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8295949
>
> Daniel Fuchs has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional
> commits since the last revision:
>
> - Updated after review comments. In particular var tmp => var => _unused -
> and avoid var in java.xml
> - Merge branch 'master' into deprecate-url-ctor-8294241
> - Fix whitespace issues
> - 8294241
Thanks Daniel. The java.xml part looks good to me.
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Marked as reviewed by joehw (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10874
