On Wed, 7 May 2025 02:24:00 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> A followup to [JDK-8355773](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8355773). 
>> Convert a bunch more tests to fetch the ThreadReference from a static field 
>> in the debuggee. [JDK-8355773](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8355773) 
>> focused on the easier tests that already had a static field, and the name of 
>> the field was the same as the thread name. This batch takes care of a bunch 
>> of harder to convert tests where in many cases static field has to be added 
>> and usually does not have the same name as the thread name.
>> 
>> Note there was a lot of template copy-n-paste code that I deleted because it 
>> was never used. For example, most tests were not using the `listIterator` 
>> variable. There were also many deletions of calls to vm.allThreads(). Some 
>> were because the need to iterate over the threads went away, but most were 
>> because the result was never used.
>> 
>> There are many places where the original code iterated over all the threads 
>> looking for a particular thread rather than calling on of the existing 
>> threadByName() APIs, and you'll see this being replaced by calls to the new 
>> threadByFieldNameOrThrow() API. One thing to keep in mind is that the old 
>> code tried to continue running the test if it failed to find the thread. 
>> This would lead to a timeout. threadByFieldNameOrThrow() will throw an 
>> exception which forces the test to quickly exit.
>> 
>> I added a 2nd threadByFieldNameOrThrow() API. The original one just took a 
>> threadFieldName argument, assuming that the name of the static field and the 
>> name of the thread were the same. The new one adds a threadName argument, 
>> allowing for the two to be different. The threadName is used just to double 
>> check that the Thread fetched from the static field has the expected name. 
>> It is not used as part of the lookup.
>> 
>> Tested with CI tier5, which is where all the nsk/jdi testing is done. Also 
>> ran locally on linux-x64.
>
> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   undo copyright change

Marked as reviewed by lmesnik (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24979#pullrequestreview-2825463308

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