<Swing Dev> JDK9 Review Request for 8067660: JFileChooser create new folder fails silently

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

On 11/25/2015 8:37 PM, Rajeev Chamyal wrote:
>
> Hello Alexandr,
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> I think other reason apart from access denied could be lack of space 
> on device/drive.
>
> The API documentation for File.mkdirs is not very clear on reasons 
> when the method will return false.
>
> Returns:
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> trueif and only if the directory was created, along with all necessary 
> parent directories; falseotherwise.
>
> Please let me know if your inputs on this.
>

    In this case may be it is better to make the exception message more 
general to cover other failing reasons too?

    Thanks,
    Alexandr.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rajeev Chamyal
>
> *From:*Alexandr Scherbatiy
> *Sent:* 25 November 2015 21:30
> *To:* Rajeev Chamyal
> *Cc:* Prasanta Sadhukhan; Sergey Bylokhov; swing-dev at openjdk.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: <Swing Dev> JDK9 Review Request for 8067660: 
> JFileChooser create new folder fails silently
>
>
> 19.11.2015 13:09, Rajeev Chamyal пишет:
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>     Hello All,
>
>     Please review the following fix for Jdk9:
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>       
>
>     Bug:https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8067660
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>     Webrev:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rchamyal/8067660/webrev.00/
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erchamyal/8067660/webrev.00/>
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>     Issue: jFileChooser create new folder fails silently on windows
>     without any exception.
>
>     Fix: Throwing an IOException from
>     GenericFileSystemView::createNewFolder,WindowsFileSystemView::createNewFolder
>     andUnixFileSystemView::createNewFolder if mkdirs call returns false.
>
>
>     The exception message in the fix is: "Access denied". Are there 
> other reasons for which the File.mkdirs() can return false?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Alexandr.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Rajeev Chamyal
>