Summary

Update Class.toGenericString to account for records.

Problem

A record type has a printed representation using class rather than record.

Solution

Update the specification and implementation. Note that in the interests of behavioral compatibility, Class.toString is not being updated.

Specification

--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java  Wed Dec 04 14:55:15 2019 -0800
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java  Thu Dec 05 10:01:26 2019 -0800
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@
      *
      * The string is formatted as a list of type modifiers, if any,
      * followed by the kind of type (empty string for primitive types
-     * and {@code class}, {@code enum}, {@code interface}, or
-     * <code>&#64;</code>{@code interface}, as appropriate), followed
+     * and {@code class}, {@code enum}, {@code interface},
+     * <code>&#64;</code>{@code interface}, or {@code record} as appropriate), followed
      * by the type's name, followed by an angle-bracketed
      * comma-separated list of the type's type parameters, if any,
      * including informative bounds on the type parameters, if any.