On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:46:46 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhuk...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review a fix for issue where it was seen that several classes in plaf > package rely on default constructors as > part of their public API. > It's to be noted that "A no-arg public constructor is generated by the > compiler for a class if it does not declare an > explicit constructor. While convenient, this is inappropriate for many kinds > of formal classes, both because the > constructor will have no javadoc and because the constructor may be > unintended." > > For the JDK, classes intended to be used outside of the JDK, public classes > in exported packages, should not rely on > default constructors. > > Proposed fix is to add explicit public no-arg constructors for public classes > and protected no-arg constructor for > protected classes for javax.swing module This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 527a3093 Author: Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhuk...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/527a3093 Stats: 468 lines in 36 files changed: 464 ins; 0 del; 4 mod 8252722: More Swing plaf APIs that rely on default constructors Reviewed-by: prr ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/251
