javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseBoolean("10") returns true instead of false or an Exception

[Tomas-Kraus]

javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseBoolean("10") returns true instead of false or an Exception.

The method will return true for any String that starts with "1" like "11" or "1A".

I would expect the result to be false or throw an IllegalArgumentException as the Javadoc seems to indicate.

Environment

java version "1.6.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01, mixed mode)

Windows 7 64-bit

Affected Versions

[2.2.5]

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Reported by garydgregory

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Issue-Links:
is duplicated by
JAXB-902

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Was assigned to snajper

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
snajper said:
This belongs to spec category, and most likely we'll update javadoc with next MR, since we don't want to change behaviour (as we managed to with eclipse-ee4j/jaxb-ri#902) which is defined since 2.1.0.

As a workaround, one can of course supply own version of DTC.

[Tomas-Kraus]

@glassfishrobot Commented
This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAXB-901

[Tomas-Kraus]

• Issue Imported From: javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseBoolean("10") returns true instead of false or an Exception  javaee/jaxb-v2#901
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @glassfishrobot