Name: rlT66838 Date: 09/17/99


It seems like the methods parseURL() and setURL() in
the class URLStreamHandler should be declared to throw
MalformedURLException's.

This is because subclasses of URLStreamHandler are used,
via these methods, to parse the protocol-specific part of
String URLs in the URL constructors. However, because these
methods are not declared to
throw MalformedURLExceptions, subclasses that override these
methods cannot throw them, and so there is no way for these
subclasses to indicate failure to parse the protocol-specific
part.

Example:

  new URL("jar:blahblah"); // invalid URL


(Review ID: 95352)
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