On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 15:19:11 GMT, Lance Andersen <lan...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/jar/JarFile.java line 866:
>>
>>> 864: } catch (Exception e2) {
>>> 865: // Any other Exception should be a ZipException
>>> 866: throw (ZipException) new ZipException("Zip file format
>>> error").initCause(e2);
>>
>> If there is ZIP format error then I would expect ZipException or the more
>> general IOException is already thrown. So I think this is catching other
>> cases, maybe broken manifests or signed JAR files, in which case a
>> JarException may be better.
>
> JarFile::getInputStream. mentions ZipException but not JarException which is
> why I chose this. If we change this to JarException, I would need to update
> the javadoc and create a CSR.
>
> Please let me know your preference
`JarException` is a subclass of `ZipException` though, so I think this would be
ok to throw and still be compliant with the specification.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7348
