Code Review Request: 7198073: (prefs) user prefs not saved [macosx]

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/10/2012 01:21, Kurchi Hazra wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    This is a regression introduced by the fix for 7160252[1] that I 
> pushed a few weeks ago. We should
> really be using the class member field isUser, rather than the 
> argument passed in the constructor as a parameter
> for cfFileForNode(). Due to this wrong parameter being passed, user 
> preferences were never getting stored into
> permanent storage.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~khazra/7198073/webrev.00/
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7198073
>
> Thanks,
> Kurchi
>
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~khazra/7160252/webrev.02/
Kurchi - thanks for tracking this one down, looking at it now it is 
obvious how this slipped through. I think the proposed change is okay 
although I think we need to do a bit of clean-up on this code at some 
point (not for this change, I realize this one needs to be fixed in 7u 
and I don't want to muddy the waters).

The other things is tests. The preferences implementation that came via 
the Mac port is turning out to have a bit of a bug tail and one or two 
regressions have sneaked in along the way too. Do you think you could 
add a test for this issue? Also at some point we need to look at the 
test coverage and quality of the tests for this area as most/all of 
these Mac specific issues should have been caught before it ever went in.

-Alan