RFR: JDK-8318854: [macos14] Running any AWT app prints Secure coding warning
Harshitha Onkar
honkar at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 9 19:31:05 UTC 2023
With Xcode upgraded to 14.3.1 for macOS builds secure coding warning message was seen in the logs as below:
"WARNING: Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state! Enable secure coding by implementing NSApplicationDelegate.applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState: and returning YES."
which requires AppDelegate to explicitly implement applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState() to return true as mentioned here in [Apple Release notes](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/appkit-release-notes-for-macos-14#Restorable-State).
While investigating JFX embedded scenario (Swing components in FX window) another issue observed was that the AWT was overriding the FX delegate causing the app to crash in certain scenarios. This issue is also being fixed in this PR and also as part of [JDK-8319669](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319669) , https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1280.
The fix for JDK-8318854 involves:
- implementing applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState() in ApplicationDelegate.m & QueuingApplicationDelegate.m to return YES by default, unless the env var - **AWT_DISABLE_NSDELEGATE_SECURE_SAVE** is defined.
- Fix added to stop AWT toolkit from overriding a delegate set by another NSApplication by default. There is an option to restore the old behavior by defining the env var - **AWT_OVERRIDE_NSDELEGATE**.
- Null checks are added for shared delegate in the unforeseen case where it could be null and cause issues in AWTWindow.m, CMenuBar.m, ApplicationDelegate.m
**PLEASE NOTE !!** The environment variables being added as part of this fix are for debugging only and should NOT be used for application purpose. As such they will NOT be documented.
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Commit messages:
- added new env var for AWT delegate override
- single env var change
- env var changes
- env var AWT_OVERRIDE_DELEGATE, null check for shared delegate
- added applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16569/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16569&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8318854
Stats: 41 lines in 4 files changed: 26 ins; 2 del; 13 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16569.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16569/head:pull/16569
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16569
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