[9] Review request: 8139842: NullPointerException in WCPageBackBufferImpl when a WebView is too large

[Jim Graham]

A formatting nit - "if" is not a function, it is a control statement and 
so there should always be a space between it and the condition being tested:

"if(foo)" => "if (foo)"

Just to make sure we are on the same page, 
ResourceFactory.getMaxTextureSize() is clamped by an arbitrary limit we 
use for tiling ImageView images.  It's not actually the limit enforced 
by hardware and can be less than that.

As to the correctness of the fix - if w,h are clipped to the maximum 
texture size, where is the code that then tiles the content of the page 
so that it doesn't get clipped out?  I experimented with a very large 
web page (I just cut and pasted 20 paragraphs of "Lorem ipsum dolor" 
text created by a generator into an HTML file and loaded it into the 
WebView's engine) and it seems that what happens is that your clipping 
of the WebPage makes it smaller than the indicated size and the WebView 
rendering somehow then manages to tile that image into the requested 
space.  In other words, you get multiple horizontal copies of the page 
to fill out the horizontal space.  This doesn't "fix" the problem, it 
simply avoids an exception.  To adequately fix the problem we'd have to 
detect that the corresponding WebPage object was created smaller than 
the indicated size and tile the content into multiple WebPage objects - 
but WebPage is not set up for that.

There is tiling support for the page itself at a lower level - we should 
rework WebPage so that instead of creating a single texture for all of 
the webkit tiles, it creates one per webkit tile and so ties naturally 
into the existing tiling at the lower levels of webkit...

			...jim

On 12/15/15 3:38 PM, Guru Hb wrote:
> Hi Kevin,  Jim,  Alexander
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> Please provide your review comments for
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> JBS : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139842
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> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ghb/8139842/webrev.00/
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> Tested on Windows , Linux and Mac.
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> Thanks,
>
> Guru
>