[jdom-interest] PartialList not conforming List interface (using JDK 1.1 collections)

[Gabor Greif]

PartialList l;
...
l.add(l.size(), "new");

will throw IndexOutOfBoundsException

But the spec says that this should only be thrown if (index < 0 || index >
size()).

Stepping into the method

    public void add(int index, Object current) {
        backingList.add(backingList.indexOf(get(index)), current);	<<
throws
...
    }

shows that the exception comes from the marked line. backingList is a
LinkedList, and that is defined in the JDK 1.1 collections jar in package
com.sun.java.util.collections.LinkedList.

So the bug seems to be in Suns code. Has anybody experienced this before.
I heard that the com.sun.java.util.collections.LinkedList package is
basically identical to the java.util.LinkedList JDK2 package. Then the bug
must be there too.

For now I have made this fix to PartialList:

    public void add(int index, Object current) {
        if (index == backingList.size())
        	backingList.add(current);
        else
        	backingList.add(backingList.indexOf(get(index)), current);
	...

	Gabor