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

[Kurchi Subhra Hazra]

On 10/12/12 12:43 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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).
  Right, I will have to spend more time cleaning up this after 
committing this fix.

> The other thin 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? 
  Let me get back to you on this.

> 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.
  I agree. Again, this will be a longer time goal for me.

- Kurchi