[HARMONY-1352] [classlib][text] unexpected IllegalArgumentException for RuleBasedCollator.getCollationElementIterator((String)null)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Classlib
• Assignee: Tim Ellison
• Reporter: Vladimir Bossicard
• Created: 31/Aug/06 03:19
• Updated: 11/Oct/06 15:37
• Resolved: 10/Oct/06 22:07

Description

The method java.text.RuleBasedCollator.getCollationElementIterator((String)null) throws IllegalArgumentException on Harmony and NPE on RI.
Note, the method RuleBasedCollator.getCollationElementIterator((CharacterIterator) null) throws NPE on Harmony and RI.

================= test.java =====================
import java.text.*;

public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try

{ new RuleBasedCollator("< a< b< c< d").getCollationElementIterator((String)null); }

catch (Exception e)

{ System.out.println("exception: " + e); }

try

{ new RuleBasedCollator("< a< b< c< d").getCollationElementIterator((CharacterIterator) null); }

catch (Exception e)

{ System.out.println("exception: " + e); }

}
}
=============================================

Output:
C:\tmp\tmp17>C:\jrockit-jdk1.5.0-windows-ia32\bin\java.exe -cp . -showversion test
java version "1.5.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-b64)
BEA WebLogic JRockit(R) (build dra-38972-20041208-2001-win-ia32, R25.0.0-75, GC: System optimized over throughput (initial strategy singleparpar))

exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
exception: java.lang.NullPointerException

C:\tmp\tmp17>C:\harmony\classlib1.5\deploy\jdk\jre\bin\java.exe -cp . -showversion test
java version 1.5 (subset)

(c) Copyright 1991, 2006 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as applicable.
exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
exception: java.lang.NullPointerException