JPackage and ask for microphone permissions broken on OSX...

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Hi Core-libs-dev,

I’m trying to report an issue with JPackage on recent versions of OSX.

Problem is, the microphone permissions aren’t granted to applications created by jpackage. The resulting recorded 16 bit PCM line in samples files are the correct duration, but don’t have any sound (samples all set to 0).

System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Microphone
(application never asks for permissions)

Otherwise, the only workaround I can figure out is to have the app launch then bootstrap itself using Runtime and grant applications to the Terminal.app (when it calls itself from `java Application.app/MacOS/Resources/Application`)

There are various reports of this on the Internet - but I’m wondering if the JPackage team is aware of the issue.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55727488/application-doesnt-ask-for-permission-to-access-microphone-in-macos-10-14-mojav

This pretty much shows the solution - needs a bit of Objective C though.

Reproducing the problem: JPackage any java sound recording app on latest OSX, run it... will be unable to capture sound. Run the same code from the command line, via classpath or modules... it will record audio after asking the user to grant microphone permissions to Terminal.app.

It would be great if this is fixed in JDK 17.


Many Thanks,


Ben S