RFR: 8326712: Robot tests fail on XWayland [v2]

[Kevin Rushforth]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:22:36 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Updated to return a blank image if permission is not granted.
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>> Since `SecurityException` is deprecated, we should not throw that.
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>> In a similar situation on macOS (user has not enabled screen capture), we return a blank (all black) image, so I think that's what we would do here.
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> No, SecurityException is NOT deprecated and there are no plans to deprecate it.
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> https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk23/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/SecurityException.html#%3Cinit%3E()
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> This kind of platform reason for a "SecurityException" is precisely why it isn't deprecated even though the Java SecurityManager is deprecated.

Thanks for the correction about "SecurityException" not being deprecated.

I still think that for this PR, we should not throw an exception, since we A) don't specify it to do so, and B) don't do that on macOS in a nearly identical situation.

We could consider a future RFE to change the spec (and maybe the behavior).

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1490#discussion_r1659169563