RFR: 6852577: Only for Nimbus LAF UIManager.get("PasswordField.echoChar") is null [v3]

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2022 04:35:15 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> It will have the problem as you mentioned so I did it as it is. Since we have already UIDefaults table defined, I think it can be used for this, without changing the doc which might cause compatibility issues.
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> it will also probably need change in compiler as to how it generates/parses the type as I am getting
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "build.tools.generatenimbus.UIProperty$PropertyType.ordinal()" because "this.type" is null
> 	at build.tools.generatenimbus.UIProperty.write(UIProperty.java:87)
> 	at build.tools.generatenimbus.UIStyle.write(UIStyle.java:156)
> 	at build.tools.generatenimbus.UIRegion.write(UIRegion.java:213)
> 	at build.tools.generatenimbus.SynthModel.write(SynthModel.java:102)
> 	at build.tools.generatenimbus.Generator.generate(Generator.java:212)
> 	at build.tools.generatenimbus.Generator.main(Generator.java:118)
> 
> so I think this is the safer and cleaner alternative as I am not creating a new UIDefaults table, just adding a new entry to it..

It is probably simpler but we already store all tha properties in the generated NimbusDefaults, I do not think we should split the storage in two parts.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10035