<Swing Dev> [jdk17] RFR: 8269269: [macos11] SystemIconTest fails with ClassCastException [v2]

Thu Jul 1 16:03:06 UTC 2021

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:31:13 GMT, Alexander Zuev <kizune at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Not in this case, you cannot change the public signature.
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>> Not in this case, you cannot change the public signature.
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> Well, it is a change in API and should be done within the same process as any API change. But it definitely can be done in the future major release.

No, we cannot change the return type of the method in the public API even via CSR. that's an incompatible change.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/178