On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:44:12 GMT, Joe Darcy <da...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> In Integer and Long, several of the parsing methods are specified to throw 
> NumberFormatException on a null input rather than an NPE. That behavior is 
> not proposed to be modified. However, I think it is reasonable for the 
> NumberFormatException to have a more informative error message than just 
> "null" -- specifically "Cannot parse null string" is proposed here.
> 
> All four prior occurrences of 
> 
> throw new NumberFormatException("null")
> 
> have be updated; there were no other instances of this idiom in the java.lang 
> package.
> 
> All java/lang/{Integer, Long} regression tests pass with this change.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 564011cf
Author:    Joe Darcy <da...@openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/564011cf
Stats:     6 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 6 mod

8261290: Improve error message for NumberFormatException on null input

Reviewed-by: attila, alanb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2663

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