<AWT Dev> [8] Request for approval for CR 8004693 - TEST_BUG: java/awt/KeyboardFocusmanager/DefaultPolicyChange/DefaultPolicyChange_Swing.java fails

[Konstantin Shefov]

Reminder
On 12-Feb-13 18:23, Konstantin Shefov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review a fix for the issue:
>
> 8004693 - TEST_BUG: 
> java/awt/KeyboardFocusmanager/DefaultPolicyChange/DefaultPolicyChange_Swing.java 
> fails
>
> The webrev is http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kshefov/8004693/webrev.00/
>
> This test is broken.
>
> The test tells the AWT EventQueue to run the method 
> DefaultPolicyChange_Swing.runTestSwing() (which contains all the 
> actual test code) at a later time (EventQueue.invokeLater(Runnable)). 
> By adding a few printlns to that function, it's easy to see that it 
> starts to run but never finishes. In particular, it never reaches any 
> of the actual test code.
>
> First, "((SunToolkit) SunToolkit.getDefaultToolkit()).realSync();" 
> should be added after EventQueue.invokeLater() call for all procedures 
> in this call to be run.
>
> After this test starts to fail. It fails since jdk 7 fcs.
>
> The fail is caused because test is corrupted.
>
> The test should compare JFrame, JWindow and JDialog 
> FocusTraversalPolicies before 
> "currentKFM.setDefaultFocusTraversalPolicy(newFTP)" call and after 
> this call. But instead the test compares something different.
>
> In the current variant of this test we see:
>
>    FocusTraversalPolicy defaultFTP = 
> currentKFM.getDefaultFocusTraversalPolicy();
>
> It returns object java.awt.DefaultFocusTraversalPolicy at 5fe2d461.
>
> But JFrame, JWindow and JDialog objects initially have 
> "javax.swing.LayoutFocusTraversalPolicy at 2f81dd44" policy.
> After "currentKFM.setDefaultFocusTraversalPolicy(newFTP)" call they 
> still have javax.swing.LayoutFocusTraversalPolicy at 2f81dd44.
>
> So test should not fail, but it fails.
>
> Test needs to be fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Konstantin