<AWT Dev> [12] Review Request: 8210231 Robot.delay() catches InterruptedException and prints stacktrace to stderr.

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 30/10/2018 14:03, Phil Race wrote:
> But the docs for Robot.delay() state :
> 
>   >  To catch any |InterruptedException|s that occur, |Thread.sleep()| may be used instead.
> 
> So to my reading it is telling you "this call will completely swallow thread interrupts".

This is what I have tried to follow, if the user need to catch the InterruptedException then Thread.sleep() should be used. Otherwise the Robot.delay() may be used, which will be transparent to the Thread.interrupt(). I mean behavior will not be depend on the moment when interrupt was called, before Robot.delay(), inside Robot.delay() or right after the Robot.delay().

> 
> And you are changing that and I don't think you should.
> It has nothing to do with removing the printStackTrace which is the only
> change requested by the submitter.
> 
> -phil.
> 
> On 10/30/18 11:04 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> Hi, Phil.
>>
>> On 30/10/2018 10:34, Phil Race wrote:
>>> Can you explain why you are doing this ?
>>> Thread.sleep() clears the IE so why do you need to restore it ?
>>> It just looks like an un-specified and un-needed change of behaviour to me.
>>
>> It is done to "notify" other code which follows Robot.delay() that the thread was interrupted.
>>
>> So for example before the fix the code below depended on when the thread.interrupt() was called:
>>   Robot.delay(10);
>>   EventQueue.invokeAndWait(...);
>>
>> If the method "interrupt()" was called by the application, when invokeAndWait () was called, then the thread will be stopped as expected.
>> But if the method "interrupt()" is called during Robot.delay(10), the application will miss the fact that the flow was interrupted.
>>
>>>
>>> -phil.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/7/18 9:56 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>> Please review the fix for jdk12.
>>>>
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210231
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8210231/webrev.00
>>>>
>>>> The Robot.delay() is a simple wrapper on top of Thread.sleep(), which ignores the InterruptedException. But in case of InterruptedException it prints the stack trace, which is unspecified behavior.
>>>>
>>>> In the fix the "printStackTrace()" was removed, and the interrupted state of the thread is restored.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 


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Best regards, Sergey.