> Both the Foreign Memory Access and the Foreign Linker APIs leave something to > be desired when it comes to handling NPEs - first, most of the API javadoc is > oblivious to NPEs being thrown. Secondly, not all API method implementations > add expicit NPE checks - with the result of NPE often being thrown very deep > in the call chain - if at all. Third, test for API coverage of nulls is > ad-hoc. > > This patch rectifies all these issues. To increase coverage for null injected > into APIs, this patch introduces a new framework for testing an API in bulk, > so that all methods are reflectively called with some values replaced with > nulls, so that all combinations are tried. > > I've also added, as part of this patch, a test to cover the statics in > MemoryAccess which were not covered throughly.
Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision: Add coarser-grained statements abut NPE handling at the class level. Add test support for LibraryLookup. ------------- Changes: - all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1388/files - new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1388/files/54d5e148..bbdff9fb Webrevs: - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=1388&range=03 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=1388&range=02-03 Stats: 241 lines in 16 files changed: 54 ins; 185 del; 2 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1388.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/1388/head:pull/1388 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1388
