RFR: 8354646: java.awt.TextField allows to identify the spaces in a password when double clicked at the starting and end of the text [v15]

Alexey Ivanov aivanov at openjdk.org
Mon Jun 9 20:49:32 UTC 2025


On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 20:44:57 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 . The same solution was copied and pasted into the SynthPasswordFieldUI . But the AquaTextPasswordFieldUI does NOT extend either class with the 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. This should benefit all the PasswordFieldUI's (that I know about).
>> 
>> 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 one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Update src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/basic/BasicTextUI.java
>   
>   Co-authored-by: Alexey Ivanov <alexey.ivanov at oracle.com>

Marked as reviewed by aivanov (Reviewer).

I'm for moving the test under `BasicTextUI`.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25443#pullrequestreview-2911326011
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25443#issuecomment-2956995265


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