RFR: 8357675: Amend headless message

Phil Race prr at openjdk.org
Thu May 29 18:56:56 UTC 2025


On Mon, 26 May 2025 16:38:21 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Currently, the default headless message ends with a comma instead of full stop and has an additional line break.
> 
> 
> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.awt.HeadlessException:
> No X11 DISPLAY variable was set,
> or no headful library support was found,
> but this program performed an operation which requires it,
> 
>         at java.desktop/java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:158)
>         at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:518)
>         at java.desktop/java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:428)
>         at java.desktop/javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:224) 
> 
> 
> **Fix:**
> 
> Amend the message so that it ends with a full stop and remove the line break.
> 
> 
> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.awt.HeadlessException:
> No X11 DISPLAY variable was set,
> or no headful library support was found,
> but this program performed an operation which requires it.
>         at java.desktop/java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:158)
>         at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:518)
>         at java.desktop/java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:428)
>         at java.desktop/javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:224)
> 
> 
> **Testing:**
> 
> Build a headless-only JDK (pass `--enable-headless-only` to the `configure` script) and create a `JFrame`.
> 
> It's impossible to create an automated test for this change, and I don't think a test is required, it's a cosmetic change.

BTW there's a good reason for the newline. It's there on all platforms and has been there since at least 1.5
If its not there then when you do "System.out.println(new HeadlessException("foo").getMessage());
and there's a default message, you'll get
fooNo X11 Display variable was set ...

instead of the current more legible
foo
No X11 Display variable was set ...

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25453#issuecomment-2920295348


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