[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] JDK-7107175 - Paper tray handling

[Phil Race]

> What would be the correct solution for this problem?

Which problem ?

7107175  sounds like a bug in the parameters we pass to lpr

The other problem you mention is largely if not entirely because IPP lumped
trays along with papers as being "Media".

See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2566#section-4.2.11

    If a Printer object supports a medium name as a value of this
    attribute, such a medium name implicitly selects an input-tray that
    contains the specified medium.  If a Printer object supports a medium
    size as a value of this attribute, such a medium size implicitly
    selects a medium name that in turn implicitly selects an input-tray
    that contains the medium with the specified size.  If a Printer
    object supports an input-tray as the value of this attribute, such an
    input-tray implicitly selects the medium that is in that input-tray
    at the time the job prints.

I can see no way around this other than defining an new attribute class 
that doesn't
subclass Media and duplicates MediaTray .. but then you'd also need to 
say what happens
if someone specifies two different trays, one by each means.

That's an API solution that doesn't seem likely any time soon.

Plus, providing a way to specify both simultaneously at an API level 
wouldn't
be enough to resolve 7107175  .

-phil.

On 11/21/2013 1:34 PM, Patrick Reinhart wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to look into this defect as one of our customer has reported the same problem. I also have seen that there is no way to specify a media size name and a output tray neither thru the PrintRequestAttributeSet nor the DocAttributeSet even-though it's possible to do so within the print dialog.
>
> As in the in the defect described, media size and tray can be specified for a CUPS printer. Unfortunately the Attribute type for MediaTray and MediaSizeName can not be mixed...
>
> What would be the correct solution for this problem?
>
> Cheers Patrick