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Elliotte Rusty Harold updated IO-813:
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Description:
LastModifiedFileComparator is likely broken by design since it can unexpectedly
throw UncheckedIOException. This violates the contract of Comparable.compareTo
which is not documented to throw that exception.
I analyzed almost this exact case in detail here:
https://medium.com/@elharo/when-you-cant-throw-an-exception-b9f9b0db9ba4
I'm not sure how to fix this now, but I'm tempted to simply deprecate this
entire class.
was:
LastModifiedFileComparator is likely broken by design since it can unexpectedly
throw UncheckedIOException. This violates the contract of Comparable.compareTo
which is not documented to throw that exception.
I analyzed almost this exact case in detail here:
https://medium.com/@elharo/when-you-cant-throw-an-exception-b9f9b0db9ba4
I'm not sure how to fix this now, but I'm, tempted to simply deprecate this
entire class.
> LastModifiedFileComparator should not throw exceptions, period
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> Key: IO-813
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-813
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Priority: Major
>
> LastModifiedFileComparator is likely broken by design since it can
> unexpectedly throw UncheckedIOException. This violates the contract of
> Comparable.compareTo which is not documented to throw that exception.
> I analyzed almost this exact case in detail here:
> https://medium.com/@elharo/when-you-cant-throw-an-exception-b9f9b0db9ba4
> I'm not sure how to fix this now, but I'm tempted to simply deprecate this
> entire class.
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