6676423: (prefs) Opensource unit/regression tests for java.util.prefs
Summary: Moved the existing test cases for prefs to open area
Reviewed-by: martin, alanb
diff --git a/test/java/util/prefs/SerializeExceptions.java b/test/java/util/prefs/SerializeExceptions.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
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+ * accompanied this code).
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+ *
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+ */
+
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug     4811356
+ * @summary Prefs exceptions were unintentionally not serializable
+ * @author  Josh Bloch
+ */
+
+import java.util.prefs.*;
+import java.io.*;
+
+public class SerializeExceptions {
+    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
+        test(new BackingStoreException("Hi"));
+        test(new InvalidPreferencesFormatException("Mom!"));
+    }
+
+    static void test(Object o) throws IOException {
+        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
+        out.writeObject(o);
+        out.flush();
+        out.close();
+    }
+}