[Yanel-dev] Migrating from Java 8 to Java 9 - Base 64

[Michael Wechner]

Dear Balz

Am 05.03.18 um 10:18 schrieb basZero:
> Dear Michael,
>
> sounds good, but can you explain the reason why you upgrade to Java 9?
> I think it only makes sense to upgrade, if you also upgrade to Tomcat
> 9 (see http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html )

Because the laptop of my son is using Java 9 :-)

> If somebody runs Yanel on Tomcat 8, Yanel won't work anymore.

why not? I am not sure anymore whether you mentioned that before, but if
so, can you tell me once again.
>
> In general, I'd appreciate a lot if Yanel would provide a branch for
> each tomcat version.
> The master branch will still (as today) contain the very latest code
> and yanel users can choose what they want.
>
> So before you make the upgrade, please create a branch tomcat8 (or
> something like that) so that the current tomcat8 version before your
> upgrade is still easily available in future

The only difference will be the Base64 implementation inside
YanelServlet, so I think it will be backwards compatible.

I will make a branch first anyway and let you know, such that you can
test it as well.

All the best

Michael
>
> Cheers
> Balz
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Michael Wechner
> <michael.wechner at wyona.com <mailto:michael.wechner at wyona.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     I noticed that Java 9 on Mac does not provide anymore
>     sun.misc.BASE64Decoder and that we have to replace it by
>     java.util.Base64
>
>     -                sun.misc.BASE64Decoder dec = new
>     sun.misc.BASE64Decoder();
>     -                String userpassDecoded = new
>     String(dec.decodeBuffer(userpassEncoded));
>     +                //sun.misc.BASE64Decoder dec = new
>     sun.misc.BASE64Decoder();
>     +                //String userpassDecoded = new
>     String(dec.decodeBuffer(userpassEncoded));
>     +                // TODO: Migrate to java.util.Base64
>     +                java.util.Base64.Decoder decoder =
>     java.util.Base64.getMimeDecoder();
>     +                String userpassDecoded = new
>     String(decoder.decode(userpassEncoded));
>
>     I am currently testing this and if successful, would like to replace
>     it...also see
>
>     https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35301409/migrating-from-sun-misc-base64-to-java-8-java-util-base64
>     <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35301409/migrating-from-sun-misc-base64-to-java-8-java-util-base64>
>
>     Any objections?
>
>     All the best
>
>     Michael
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