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[IO-895] ExceptionInInitializerError when using Commons IO on the module path - #897
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The Java 9+ path now invokes sun.nio.ch.DirectBuffer.cleaner() and jdk.internal.ref.Cleaner.clean() reflectively. Both packages need the --add-opens flags added to the Maven test profile, so those tests do not exercise a normal classpath consumer with no extra JVM arguments. In that case, wouldn’t clean(..., true) fail with IllegalAccessException at invocation? The previous Java9Cleaner used Unsafe.invokeCleaner for that case. Could you retain a no-flags path and add a subprocess test without --add-opens? This would check that the module-path fix does not regress the default classpath use.
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This PR seeks to fix the bug described in IO-895.
Changes made in org.apache.commons.io.input.ByteBufferCleaner
should an ExceptionInInitializerError occur, it now provides the correct root cause whereas the previous implementation always provided the stacktrace of the Java 8 failure.
Testing
Runtime considerations when using Commons IO on the module path
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