<Swing Dev> JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8043548: Fix raw and unchecked lint warnings in javax.swing.plaf.*

[Joe Darcy]

PS This change involves various API updates; once those are settled, 
I'll file the internal ccc paperwork.

PPS The javax.swing.plaf.nimbus.State class is generified in an odd manner.

-Joe

On 06/14/2014 04:44 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review the (unexpected large) fix for
>
>     JDK-8043548: Fix raw and unchecked lint warnings in 
> javax.swing.plaf.*
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8043548.0/
>
> In most of the javax.swing.multi.MultiFoo.java type, I replaced a raw 
> Vector with a Vector<ComponentUI> and was then able to delete a number 
> of now redundant casts. In some of the MultiFoo classes,
>
>     src/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/multi/MultiPopupMenuUI.java
> src/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/multi/MultiTabbedPaneUI.java
>     src/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/multi/MultiTextUI.java
>     src/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/multi/MultiTreeUI.java
>
> all the elements stored are actually a more specific type than 
> ComponentUI, say, PopupMenuUI. In those cases, I still used a 
> Vector<ComponentUI> rather than, say, a Vector<PopupMenuUI> to deal 
> with other aspects of the API. In particular, the MultiFoo classes 
> have a method
>
>     ComponentUI[] getUIs() methods
>
> which is computed over in MultiLookAndFeel. Generifying methods in 
> MultiLookAndFeel, particularly creatUIs, to work properly in the face 
> of generics would unfortunately be problematic.
>
> A few classes in javax.swing had to be updated now to fully clear the 
> warnings in plaf; the rest of javax.swing will be handled in future 
> work (JDK-8043550: Fix raw and unchecked lint warnings in javax.swing.*).
>
> Some additional changes were needed in sun/swing/BakedArrayList.java, 
> but that class should probably be removed from the platform.
>
> I ran SwingSet2 with a build having these changes and nothing appeared 
> obviously wrong.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe