[wildfly-dev] WFLY-261 & inconsistency in JDK code

Hey guys. There seems to be inconsistency in GenericURLContext wrt how it handles lookup. This breaks lookups done from AS7/Wfly. Said lookup methods [1] & [2]. The wrongdoer is code in GenericURLContext(so this probably has impact on all URL contexts). In case of argument like "rmi://127.0.0.1:1190/jmxrmi" there are two different results. If [2] is invoked with above argument it works as expected. It goes down into getURLContext which parse URL part: "rmi://127.0.0.1:1190" create proper stub( according to URL part ) and gives back ResolveResult. After above, it nicely asks ResolveResult for context and "remainingName" [4] - in this case, its last bit of original URL: "jmxrmi". This call does not fail. However if the [1] is used, it goes wrong. Lookup method calls "getContinuationContext" which strips part of URL and call lookup(String) with only "rmi:" [5]. This creates URL stub with default values( in case of RMI for instance ) since implementation assume that if there is no host:port pair, it sets those values to localhost:1090(which may be different in URL). This leads to [6] ( since context lookup on remainingName does not give result ). The suffix, which is argument of this call has three parts ["","127.0.0.1:1199","jmxrmi"]. Trick is that object on which [6] is invoked takes only first part of this name, which is empty string. Code which does that [7]. This results in exception which indicates that URL is not accessible, while the lookup(String) will return valid object. Initial stack trace for [1]: rmiURLContext.getRootURLContext(String, Hashtable) line: 63 rmiURLContext(GenericURLContext).lookup(String) line: 200 rmiURLContext(GenericURLContext).getContinuationContext(Name) line: 192 rmiURLContext(GenericURLContext).lookup(Name) line: 213 InitialContext.lookup(Name, boolean) line: 112 Current wildfly code calls the lookup(Name) method[8], which will fail as described above. This PR [9] has testcase which reproduce problem. Im not quite sure if we can wait for JDK fix( if ever ) since this piece of code is present in JDK7 and 6. Either this piece of code in WFLY remains as is, failing for non localhost:1090 or there will be nasty Name.toString() in WFLY InitialContext impl( as in [9]). Any thoughts on this? [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/naming/InitialContext.html... [2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/naming/InitialContext.html... [3] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/7-... [4] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/7-... [5] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/7-... [6] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/7-... [7] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/7-... [8] https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/blob/master/naming/src/main/java/org/j... [9] https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/pull/4477