[erlang-bugs] Doc inconsistency for public_key:pem_entry_decode/2

[Ingela Anderton Andin]

Hi!

I changed the spec, it should be a string.

Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP team - Ericsson AB


On 03/06/2015 11:51 AM, Roberto Aloi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to the doc, the function expects Password::string() as the
> second argument:
>
> http://www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.9.3/lib/public_key-0.17/doc/html/public_key.html#pem_entry_decode-2
>
> The spec for the function expects a list of strings:
>
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/801b09af301a872170e44c215e274425c46f8d24/lib/public_key/src/public_key.erl#L113
>
> This makes dialyzer sad. Incidentallly, the code seems to work ok both
> if you pass a string or a string wrapped into a list.
>
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