Re: SystemUtils methods vs. fields vs. new class [WAS: [lang] SystemU tils.JAVA_IO_TMPDIR]

[__matthewHawthorne <ma...@phreaker.net>]

I feel that all of the methods which deal with system properties aren't 
very useful.


Here's the choice:

1) new File(SystemUtils.JAVA_IO_TMPDIR)
- may throw a NullPointerException if a secret SecurityException occurs

2) new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"))
- may throw a SecurityException


I just don't think that adding code to SystemUtils to accomplish this 
task is worth the effort.  What's the problem with option 2 above?


Gary Gregory wrote:
> I was not wild about the current impl when I saw it but the fix was
> backwards compatible, that part was nice.
> 
> (1) So perhaps the question becomes: Should all of the fields be turned
> (deprecated?) into methods and the exceptions not caught? For example:
> 
> SystemUtils.getJavaIoTmpDir();
> SystemUtils.getJavaRuntimeName();
> 
> If the exceptions are not caught, it is possible that the class then becomes
> unusable in certain contexts.
> 
> The CVS comment for that change from Stephen was: "Reworked class to avoid
> security exceptions from Michael Becke". Is that really appropriate? It
> seems a bit nasty that the class is quietly initialized with nulls. 
> 
> (2) Should there be instead an isAvailable() kind of method instead?
> 
> (3) Or what about a class that deals /specifically/ with all of this, a nice
> and focused job: SystemProperties, a singleton, or static
> SystemPropertiesUtils.
> 
> SystemProperties.getInstance().getClassPath();
> SystemPropertiesUtils.getClassPath();
> 
> SystemProperties would define only methods and object versions of the
> appropriate methods. For example
> 
> File file = SystemProperties.getInstance().getJavaIoTmpDirFile();
> String dirName = SystemProperties.getInstance().getJavaIoTmpDir();
> 
> ?
> 
> Gary


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