Name: dfC67450 Date: 08/19/98



Javadoc says nothing about behaviour of
java.util.Locale.getDisplayName(Locale inLocale) in case of inLocale == null.
This behaviour is changed from jdk1.2Beta4K to jdk1.2fcs.

Here is the test demonstrating the bug:

-----------------Test.java------------------------
import java.util.*;

public class Test {

  public static void main(String args[]) {

    Locale locale = new Locale("", "", "");
    System.out.println("getDisplayName(null): \"" +
                          locale.getDisplayName(null) + "\"");
 }
    
}
---------Output from the test (JDK1.2-Beta4K) ---------------------
#> java -version
java version "1.2beta4"
Classic VM (build JDK-1.2beta4-K, green threads, sunwjit)
#> java Test
getDisplayName(null): ""
---------Output from the test (JDK1.2fcs) ---------------------
#> java -version
java version "1.2fcs"
Classic VM (build JDK-1.2fcs-F, green threads, sunwjit)
#> java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(Compiled Code)
        at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(Compiled Code)
        at java.util.Locale.getDisplayName(Compiled Code)
        at Test.main(Compiled Code)
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I'm reassigning this to Alan Liu at Mark Son-Bell's suggestion.


dale.green@eng 1998-09-02