6708550: LTP: XMLEncoder does not encode instances of the File class

Reviewed-by: peterz, loneid

jdk/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 package java.io;
 
+import java.beans.ConstructorProperties;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
@@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ public class File
      * @throws  NullPointerException
      *          If the <code>pathname</code> argument is <code>null</code>
      */
+    @ConstructorProperties("path")
     public File(String pathname) {
         if (pathname == null) {
             throw new NullPointerException();

jdk/test/java/beans/XMLEncoder/java_io_File.java

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2008 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
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
+ * have any questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 6708550
+ * @summary Tests File encoding
+ * @author Sergey Malenkov
+ */
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+public final class java_io_File extends AbstractTest<File> {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        new java_io_File().test(true);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected File getObject() {
+        return new File("test.txt"); // NON-NLS: local file
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected File getAnotherObject() {
+        return new File("/pub/demo/"); // NON-NLS: path
+    }
+}