RFR: 8159055: ImageIcon.setImage can't handle null parameter [v22]

[Alexey Ivanov]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:08:47 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When trying to call 'icon.setImage(null);' where 'icon' is an instance of ImageIcon, a null pointer exception is thrown at runtime.
>> The code tried to get the `id` for that image and instantiates `MediaTracker` to associate the null image to that `id` and checks the status of loading this null image, removes the null image from the tracker and then tries to get the image width where it throws NPE as image is null.
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>> It's better to not go through all MediaTracker usage and bail out initially itself for null image..
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> Prasanta Sadhukhan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   ArgType name change

Currently, [JDK-8159055](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8159055) is an enhancement which made sense while the goal of this PR was to change `Image.setImage` so that it accepts `null` as parameter.

After a month of discussions, that solution has been abandoned, instead it is stated that `Image.setImage` will throw `NullPointerException` if `image` parameter is `null`.

I think the type of JDK-8159055 should be changed to *bug*.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25767#issuecomment-3129858458