RFR: 8314498: [macos] Transferring File objects to Finder fails [v2]

[Arik Hadas]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:32:37 GMT, Alexey Ushakov <avu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hello! Actually, I don't like the fix:
>> 1. It was the first time I touched Objective-C code, so the code itself is very poor. 
>> 2. I didn't add any tests because I am not familiar with the test framework. 
>> 3. At some point we received a number of exception reports related to my changes (most-likely), and I have no clue what was the reason. We did some investigation with @avu but unsuccessfully. 
>> 
>> So, my hope was that someone more experienced will handle the problem properly, but passed three years...
>> 
>> @avu Can you help to handle submitting the PR from our side?
>
> @anstarovoyt thanks for the update. Yes, we'll handle it.

> 3. At some point we received a number of exception reports related to my changes (most-likely), and I have no clue what was the reason. We did some investigation with @avu but unsuccessfully.

We also have an open issue in this state that seems related:
https://github.com/mucommander/mucommander/issues/859

> @avu Can you help to handle submitting the PR from our side?

This is a long standing issue in OpenJDK and when I reported it, the OpenJDK guys closed the issue without making a real effort to investigate it, so your help would certainly be appreciated! (even a partial fix like this one, currently this functionality doesn't work at all with OpenJDK). Thanks!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15980#issuecomment-1757564813