<AWT Dev> <Swing Dev> [13] JDK-8216008: -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies empty list leads to crash

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Thu Feb 14 21:27:56 UTC 2019


+ * activate method. If the list of assistive technology providers is 
empty string, is "the" empty string. The CSR needs to be updated to 
include this spec. What is there now in the specification section needs 
to be fixed It should not point to the webrev or review and right now 
doesn't contain the change to the javadoc in the body of the CSR I think 
I even have to question most of the rest of it. Any one reading it would 
think that we always used to throw an exception in such case and now 
want to stop doing so. Isn't the bug that we did NOT throw an exception 
and now we do ? You only hint at that when you say at the end of 
"Solution", "as was the case earlier" If I am right the only thing you 
need in the CSR is to say that you are reverting the implementation to 
previous behaviour and updating the specification to make it clear that 
this behaviour is allowed by the spec since this case was unclear. -phil.



On 2/12/19 1:08 AM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>
> Hi Phil, Here is the new Webrev and CSR for the same:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8216008/webrev.04/
>
> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8218737
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Shashi
>
> *From:*Philip Race
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 9, 2019 2:18 AM
> *To:* Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah <shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>
> *Cc:* Sergey Bylokhov <sergey.bylokhov at oracle.com>; 
> awt-dev at openjdk.java.net; swing-dev at openjdk.java.net
> *Subject:* Re: <Swing Dev> [13] JDK-8216008: 
> -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies empty list leads to crash
>
> FWIW I think this could be closed out as "not a bug".
> An empty value string is an error and the spec. says AWTError is
> how errors are reported. In fact I'll argue that 8 was wrong not
> to have thrown an exception in such a case.
> It was an accident of the implementation that it did not.
> But if we want to be behaviourally compatible then ...
> Note that since you now document this you need an approved CSR BEFORE 
> pushing it.
>
> And if you go the CSR route you may need to be more precise about what
> you mean by "empty".
>
> I think it needs to say
>
> "If the list of assistive technology providers is null, or contains 
> only white
> space characters then the method returns immediately.
> All other errors are handled by throwing {@code AWTError}"
>
> @throws AWTError if there is any error in parsing or loading the ATs.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 1/21/19, 9:12 AM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>
>     Hi Sergey, Here is the new Webrev for your comments:
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8216008/webrev.02/
>
>     Thanks and regards,
>
>     Shashi
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>
>     From: Sergey Bylokhov
>
>     Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2019 3:47 AM
>
>     To: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>  <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>;swing-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:swing-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
>     Subject: Re: <Swing Dev> [13] JDK-8216008: -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies empty list leads to crash
>
>     On 16/01/2019 23:03,shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com  <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>  wrote:
>
>         Another point is that the whitespace trimming should not trigger additional input processing  for the custom class that will be used for assistive technology. For eg., if custom class "FooProvider" is implemented and if we pass "  FooProvider  " by mistake, a bug may be created to trim the whitespace in this case as well!!
>
>     Yes, my previous email suggested to always trim the content of the "input", it will cover all cases, the "atNames" is empty, the "atNames" contains only the whitespace, or the name of the class has some spaces at the start/end.
>
>         Thanks and regards,
>
>         Shashi
>
>         On 17/01/19 10:28 AM, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>
>             We need one way to tell the system not to load any assistive technologies and which is being provided.
>
>             If we add trailing white spaces removal then we may need to add another functionality to see if that class exists or not and based on that not to load anything(without throwing the error because we are parsing the input content). I think that would take a different direction. I feel it is fair enough to provide one way to tell not to load any assistive technologies and additional parsing would only lead to other ways/expectations.
>
>             Thanks and regards,
>
>             Shashi
>
>             -----Original Message-----
>
>             From: Sergey Bylokhov
>
>             Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:33 AM
>
>             To: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>  <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>;swing-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:swing-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
>             Subject: Re: <Swing Dev> [13] JDK-8216008: -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies empty list leads to crash
>
>             I guess you meant whitespaces, then it is unclear why we should not consider "empty" parameter as a "mistake"?
>
>             On 15/01/2019 20:37, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>
>                 Hi Sergey, I felt that a string with an empty space is intentional and should be considering it as a 'mistake' if done by the developers. Hence I feel it is not required(as there is a way to tell nothing to load). Please let me know if you think otherwise.
>
>                 Thanks and regards,
>
>                 Shashi
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>
>                 From: Sergey Bylokhov
>
>                 Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:32 AM
>
>                 To: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>  <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>;swing-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:swing-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
>                 Subject: Re: <Swing Dev> [13] JDK-8216008: -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies empty list leads to crash
>
>                 Hi, Shashi.
>
>                 Should we trim all whitespaces from the "atNames"?
>
>                 Otherwise the "atNames", which contains only one whitespace, will trigger the same error.
>
>                 On 09/01/2019 00:20, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>
>                     Hi Sergey, Thanks for pointing that out. Here is the new Webrev:
>
>                     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8216008/webrev.01/
>
>                     Thanks and regards,
>
>                     Shashi
>
>                     -----Original Message-----
>
>                     From: Sergey Bylokhov
>
>                     Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 3:48 AM
>
>                     To: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah<shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>  <mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com>;awt-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:awt-dev at openjdk.java.net>;swing-dev at openjdk.java.net  <mailto:swing-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
>                     Subject: Re: <Swing Dev> [13] JDK-8216008: -Djavax.accessibility.assistive_technologies empty list leads to crash
>
>                     Hi, Shashi.
>
>                     I think you can update an existing test:
>
>                     open/test/jdk/javax/accessibility/AccessibilityProvider/basic.sh
>
>                     On 03/01/2019 01:36, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
>
>                         Hi All, Please review a fix for the below bug.
>
>                         Bug:https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8216008
>
>                         Webrev:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8216008/webrev.00/
>
>                         Since the mentioned list of assistive technologies for the system property(javax.accessibility.assistive_technologies) is loaded by jvm am unable to write a test case for this bug. The test file attached with the bug can be used for testing this fix.
>
>                         This fix removes the error(class not found error) by passing an empty list to system variable javax.accessibility.assistive_technologies and does not load any assistive technologies(as the list is empty). Currently empty list produce a crash which is not required as there was no class name mentioned in the list. Please read the bug comments for more information.
>
>                         Thanks and regards,
>
>                         Shashi
>

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