Re: jdk 1.6 bug or feature?

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:15:18 -0700
Message-ID:
<g3ltqp$1r6r$1@ihnp4.ucsd.edu>
gg wrote:

here is the compilable code from working app ( I could optimize per Lew
suggestion, I am sure there are better coding than this)

....

Here's my attempt at minimal changes to turn this into a self-contained
program. However, it fails to reproduce the alleged problem:

class CPA_argException extends Exception {
   String sArgName = "EFT_Originator_ID", sSz = "10";

   public CPA_argException(String argNm, String sz) {
     sArgName = argNm;
     sSz = sz;
   }

   public @Override
   String getMessage() {
     return "CPAStd005Header argument exception -"
         + " Invalid length for ".concat(sArgName).concat(
             ", must be ").concat(sSz)
         + "numeric digits only";
   }
};

public class HRecords {

   String sEFT_Originator_ID;

   String sFileCreationNumber;

   EFT_Format eft_main;

   IEText ieText;

   public HRecords(String EFT_Originator_ID /* 10 digit */,
       String FileCreationNumber /* sz=4 */,
       EFT_Format eft_driver) throws CPA_argException {
     sEFT_Originator_ID = EFT_Originator_ID;
     sFileCreationNumber = FileCreationNumber;
     eft_main = eft_driver;
     if (!((sEFT_Originator_ID.length() == 10) & (ieText
         .matchesPattern("[0-9]{10,10}", EFT_Originator_ID)))) {
       eft_main
           .showStatus("EFT_Originator_ID must be 10 numeric"
               + " digits only but we got "
               + EFT_Originator_ID.length()
               + " for the value=" + EFT_Originator_ID);
       throw new CPA_argException("EFT_Originator_ID", "10");
     }
     try {
       int i = Integer.valueOf(EFT_Originator_ID);
     } catch (Exception e) {
       throw new CPA_argException("FileCreationNumber", "4");
     }

     if (!(FileCreationNumber.length() == 4)) {
       eft_main
           .showStatus("FileCreationNumber must be 4 numeric"
               + " digits only but we got"
               + FileCreationNumber.length()
               + " for the value=<"
               + FileCreationNumber
               + ">");
       throw new CPA_argException("FileCreationNumber", "4");
     }
   } // constructor ends
}

class EFT_Format {
   void showStatus(String s) {
   }
}

class IEText {

   public boolean matchesPattern(String string,
       String originator_ID) {
     // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     return false;
   }

}

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