RFR: 8375016: Several catch blocks for NullPointerExceptions exist in the codebase

[Christopher Schnick]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:11:48 GMT, Christopher Schnick <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR replaces various catch blocks for NPEs by proper null checks. It looks like a lot but most of the binding changes are just variants of the same approach. The test cases have been adapted to not check for NPEs anymore.
> 
> The PrismFontFactory change to a RuntimeException was made because I don't see how the try block can throw an NPE.

Well that depends on what serious means here. I would consider it serious, so I am moving it to a draft to figure out how to retain the exact behaviour of the old implementation

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2032#issuecomment-3739738528