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Re: Requiring JDK 1.4 (Was Re: svn commit: r26872 - trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl)

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_collab.net>
Date: 2007-10-01 20:47:11 CEST

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Blair Zajac wrote:
> >Daniel Rall wrote:
> >>On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Blair Zajac wrote:
> >>
> >>>dlr@tigris.org wrote:
> >>>>Author: dlr
> >>>>Date: Mon Oct 1 11:01:43 2007
> >>>>New Revision: 26872
> >>>>
> >>>>Log:
> >>>>JavaHL: Add new data type conversion routine for maintaining backwards
> >>>>compat while moving to newer APIs.
> >>>>
> >>>>[ in subversion/bindings/javahl/ ]
> >>>>
> >>>>* src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/ClientException.java
> >>>> (fromException): Add new static method which coerces or converts a
> >>>> generic Throwable into a ClientException.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Modified:
> >>>>
> >>>>trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/ClientException.java
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Modified:
> >>>>trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/ClientException.java
> >>>>
> >>>>URL:
> >>>>http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/ClientException.java?pathrev=26872&r1=26871&r2=26872
> >>>>
> >>>>==============================================================================
> >>>>
> >>>>---
> >>>>trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/ClientException.java
> >>>>(original)
> >>>>+++
> >>>>trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/ClientException.java
> >>>>Mon Oct 1 11:01:43 2007
> >>>>@@ -45,4 +45,21 @@
> >>>> {
> >>>> super(message, source, aprError);
> >>>> }
> >>>>+
> >>>>+ /**
> >>>>+ * A conversion routine for maintaining backwards compatibility.
> >>>>+ * @return <code>e</code> coerced or converted into a
> >>>>+ * <code>ClientException</code>.
> >>>>+ */
> >>>>+ static ClientException fromException(Throwable t)
> >>>>+ {
> >>>>+ if (t instanceof ClientException)
> >>>>+ {
> >>>>+ return (ClientException) t;
> >>>>+ }
> >>>>+ else
> >>>>+ {
> >>>>+ return new ClientException(t.getMessage(), null, -1);
> >>>>+ }
> >>>>+ }
> >>>If would be great if we could support exception chaining here instead
> >>>of just passing the Throwable's message.
> >>
> >>Yeah, I thought of that. I didn't want to rely on the corresponding
> >>constructor being defined -- as you mention below, it requires a
> >>minimum JRE version (which is why I didn't go there).
> >>
> >>>What is the oldest version of Java we support?
> >>
> >>subversion/bindings/javahl/README says 1.3.
> >
> >How about we move to Java 1.4 for svn 1.5. Java 1.3.x has reached
> >end-of-life (except for Solaris 8 users, which have till October 2009; I
> >wouldn't want to support 1.4 for 2 more years).
>
> s/support 1.4/support 1.3/.

I'd be +1 with that, but can't spend time on it ATM. Blair, if you
want to spearhead that effort, by all means... :)

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