IllegalArgumentException on Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getContents(null)

[Phil Race]

I see there's also an "web bug incident" (so not public) that was closed 
out as a dup of that
even though it was being reported against Linux on JDK 8 GA so is not 
likely a duplicate.
I'll forward you that.

-phil.

On 7/23/14 11:37 AM, Petr Pchelko wrote:
> Hello, Hendrik.
>
> Interesting, because there was a similar problem that’s been fixed in 7u60 and 8:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7173464
>
> I’ll have a look at this, thank you for your report.
>
> With best regards. Petr.
>
>> On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Hendrik Schreiber <hs at tagtraum.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> on calling Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getContents(null) I get the following exception:
>>
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
>> 	at java.util.TimSort.mergeHi(TimSort.java:895)
>> 	at java.util.TimSort.mergeAt(TimSort.java:512)
>> 	at java.util.TimSort.mergeCollapse(TimSort.java:437)
>> 	at java.util.TimSort.sort(TimSort.java:241)
>> 	at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1438)
>> 	at sun.awt.datatransfer.DataTransferer.setToSortedDataFlavorArray(DataTransferer.java:2399)
>> 	at sun.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardTransferable.<init>(ClipboardTransferable.java:101)
>> 	at sun.awt.datatransfer.SunClipboard.getContents(SunClipboard.java:144)
>>
>> I was not able to reproduce this, but as this happened on startup, I guess it has to do with whatever was already in the system clipboard..
>> Perhaps somebody wants to take a look at this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -hendrik
>>
>> java version "1.8.0_20-ea"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-ea-b23)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b22, mixed mode)