RFR: 8159048: Null PulseReceiver in AbstractMasterTimer

[Jose Pereda]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 15:49:31 GMT, Jose Pereda <jpereda at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR adds a check to the Animation and AnimationTimer public methods to verify that these are called from the JavaFX Application thread. If the call is done from any other thread, an IllegalStateException will be thrown.
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> This will prevent users from getting unexpected errors (typically NPE, like the one posted in the JBS issue), and will fail fast with a clear exception and reason for it.
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> The javadoc of the Animation and AnimationTimer classes and public methods has been updated accordingly.
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> Tests for both classes have been included, failing (as in no exceptions were thrown when calling from a background thread) before this patch, and passing (as in ISE was thrown).

I've edited the title of the original JBS issue https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8159048 to fix the typo.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1167#issuecomment-1658860453