Build error (sun.text.Normalizer)

[tajensen72]

I'm trying to build from the SVN tip and am getting the following error:

    [javac] /home/travis/alfresco/src/HEAD/root/projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/filesys/ftp/FTPSrvSession.java:4155: cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : method compose(java.lang.String,boolean,int)
    [javac] location: class sun.text.Normalizer
    [javac]                             cmd = sun.text.Normalizer.compose( new String(m_inbuf, 0, rdlen, "UTF-8"), false, 0);

I am using JDK 1.5.0_10.  I did some decompiling, and it looks like they've refactored that code a bit: sun.text.Normalizer has almost no functionality.  It looks like the code is now in sun.text.normalize.NormalizeBase.

I'm going to make that change on my system; but I'm not familiar enough with the code to say for sure that is the right change.  I just wanted to point it out.

Is there a specific version of JDK 1.5 that I should be using?

Thanks.

tj

[tajensen72]

To post a reply to my own post, here is the diff that I tried.  Unfortunately, it didn't work and I can't figure out why.  I am now getting an error saying the package sun.text.normalizer doesn't exist, but it does in rt.jar.  I don't know if there is something in the way the compiler options are set or what, but I'm at a loss and must get back to my real job.

tj

Index: FTPSrvSession.java
===================================================================
— FTPSrvSession.java  (revision 378)
+++ FTPSrvSession.java  (working copy)
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@
     {
        try
        {
-               // Check if the sun.text classes are available for UTF-8 conversion
+               // Check if the sun.text.normalizer classes are available for UTF-8 conversion
        
-               Class.forName( "sun.text.Normalizer");
+               Class.forName( "sun.text.normalizer.NormalizerBase");
    
                // Enable UTF-8 support
    
@@ -4152,7 +4152,7 @@
                 {
                        // Convert the string from UTF-8
                
-                               cmd = sun.text.Normalizer.compose( new String(m_inbuf, 0, rdlen, "UTF-8"), false, 0);
+                               cmd = sun.text.normalize.NormalizerBase.compose( new String(m_inbuf, 0, rdlen, "UTF-8"), false, 0);
                 }
                 else
                 {
@@ -4615,4 +4615,4 @@
                buf.append(" ");
                buf.append(finfo.getFileName());
        }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}

[tajensen72]

To reply to myself yet again (I regularly have conversations with myself…)…

My environment variables were not getting read properly, so it was using a JDK1.6 environment.  Getting it properly using a 1.5 JDK fixed it.

FWIW, the patch above will be necessary to move to JDK 1.6.

tj

[kevinr]

Thanks for the info - we are looking at fixing up the Java1.6 issues so Alfresoc compiles/execute correctly.

Thanks,

Kevin