JDK-8080330 : (cs) Charset.availableCharsets failing with NPE on several platforms
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.nio.charsets
  • Affected Version: 9
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2015-05-13
  • Updated: 2015-06-04
  • Resolved: 2015-05-14
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JDK 9
9 b65Fixed
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Description
These tests:
java/nio/charset/Charset/AvailableCharsetNames.java
java/nio/charset/Charset/NIOCharsetAvailabilityTest.java
java/nio/charset/spi/basic.sh
sun/nio/cs/DecoderOverflow.java
sun/nio/cs/EncodingNothing.java
sun/nio/cs/FindASCIICodingBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/FindASCIIRangeCodingBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/FindASCIIReplBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/FindCanEncodeBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/FindDecoderBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/FindEncoderBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/FindOneCharEncoderBugs.java
sun/nio/cs/ISO8859x.java
sun/nio/cs/MalformedSurrogates.java
sun/nio/cs/StreamEncoderOut.java
sun/nio/cs/TestCompoundTest.java
sun/nio/cs/TestStringCoding.java

all fail with same stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.nio.charset.Charset.put(Charset.java:540)
	at java.nio.charset.Charset.access$200(Charset.java:271)
	at java.nio.charset.Charset$3.run(Charset.java:581)
	at java.nio.charset.Charset$3.run(Charset.java:573)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.nio.charset.Charset.availableCharsets(Charset.java:572)
	at FindASCIICodingBugs.main(FindASCIICodingBugs.java:55)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:502)
	at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainActionHelper$SameVMRunnable.run(MainActionHelper.java:218)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Comments
The changes in JDK-8035302 were incomplete, thus breaking the Charset.availableCharsets API.
14-05-2015

Of possible relevance, JDK-8035302 was included in the client integration which seems to have triggered these failures.
14-05-2015