On Fri, 21 May 2021 16:25:58 GMT, Chris Hegarty <che...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Roger Riggs has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Simplify factory interface to BinaryOperator<ObjectInputFilter> and
>> cleanup the example
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputFilter.java line 559:
>
>> 557: * Returns the static JVM-wide deserialization filter or {@code
>> null} if not configured.
>> 558: *
>> 559: * @return the static JVM-wide deserialization filter or {@code
>> null} if not configured
>
> Is "static" significant here? Can it be dropped? I fine myself questioning
> if the "static JVM-wide" and "JVM-wide" are two different filters. If we do
> this then we have just two terms: 1) the "JVM-wide deserialization filter"
> and 2) the "JVM-wide deserialization filter factory".
>
> Additionally, can you please check all occurrence of these, to ensure that
> they are used consistently in all parts of the spec. I think I see
> serial/serialization (without the "de" ) used in a few places.
The static is intended to distinguish that single filter from the others. The
static vs current distinction is part of JEP 290 from which this evolved. The
migration to "de-serialization" from the previous "serialization" is as yet
incomplete.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3996
