<AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: 8074763 Remove API references to java.awt.dnd.peer

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Wed Mar 18 20:47:37 UTC 2015


I think its preferable to remove (hide) the method rather than leave one 
that
no application code can (or should) call because they can't provide a 
parameter
of the required type.

-phil.


On 03/18/2015 09:24 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hi, Anton.
> The problem is that this method is called when the peer itself change 
> the information in the DropTargetContext. So this method works like a 
> setter. I can make this method private, and get an access to it via 
> accessor. Will it be better?
>
> 18.03.15 8:27, Anton V. Tarasov wrote:
>> Hi Sergey,
>>
>> The only dependency on JFX/interop is this method in 
>> DropTargetContext.java:
>>
>> 98     public void addNotify(final Object dtcp) throws 
>> IllegalArgumentException {
>>
>> Was that the reason why you left the parameter?
>> Is it technically possible to retrieve the peer via the 
>> ComponentAccessor.getPeer(component) method where the component is 
>> dropTarget.getComponent()?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anton.
>>
>> On 16.03.2015 21:30, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>> Please review the fix for jdk 9.
>>> There are a number of public API which reference the unsupported 
>>> java.awt. dnd.peer interfaces.
>>>
>>> protected 
>>> java.awt.dnd.DragSource.createDragSourceContext(java.awt.dnd.peer.DragSourceContextPeer, 
>>> ...)
>>> public 
>>> java.awt.dnd.DragSourceContext(java.awt.dnd.peer.DragSourceContextPeer, 
>>> ...) constructor
>>> public java.awt.dnd.DropTarget.addNotify(ComponentPeer peer) and 
>>> removeNotify(ComponentPeer peer)
>>> public 
>>> java.awt.dnd.DropTargetContext.addNotify(DropTargetContextPeer dtcp)
>>>
>>> There is a decision to remove these references as described: 
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2015-February/008924.html 
>>>
>>> Changes description:
>>>
>>>   * DragSource.java, DragSourceContext.java, DropTarget.java : In
>>>     all of these methods the peers are used as a parameters. In most
>>>     of the cases these parameters are not necessary, because the
>>>     peer can be accessed using the reference to the shared
>>>     object(Component/DropTarget etc). Since these methods can be
>>>     useful I did not remove them, but remove one parameter only.
>>>   * DropTargetContext.java: addNotify() is called when we cannot get
>>>     the information about a peer so I change type of the parameter
>>>     and documentation of the method. It seems that these methods
>>>     DropTargetContext.addNotify/removeNotify are not useful and I
>>>     can change them by private version, but I don't know which way
>>>     will be better.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074763
>>> Webrev can be found at: 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8074763/webrev.01
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards, Sergey.
>>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards, Sergey.

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