RFR: 8354646: java.awt.TextField allows to identify the spaces in a password when double clicked at the starting and end of the text [v12]

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 07:48:18 GMT, Jeremy Wood <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Make sure AquaTextPasswordFieldUI can't use selectWordAction.
>> 
>> The core problem here was we could call selectWordAction in the Aqua LAF on a JPasswordField. This problem was already solved in the BasicPasswordFieldUI and SynthPasswordFieldUI, but the AquaTextPasswordFieldUI does NOT extend the BasicPasswordFieldUI, so it wasn't inheriting this solution.
>> 
>> So the problem is partially about multiple inheritance.
>> 
>> My first response at solving the problem is just to move the existing solution to the parent BasicTextUI class and use an instanceof to make sure it is only applied to JPasswordFields.
>> 
>> There may be many different philosophies/recommendations on how to resolve this; I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Jeremy Wood has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - 8354646: change Error to RuntimeException
>    
>    This is in response to:
>    https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/25443#discussion_r2131681790
>  - 8354646: removing catching RuntimeException
>    
>    This is in response to:
>    https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/25443#discussion_r2131680454

Marked as reviewed by psadhukhan (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25443#pullrequestreview-2904082424