<AWT Dev> RFR: 8242174 [macos] The NestedModelessDialogTest test make the macOS unstable

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Sun Apr 19 16:32:50 UTC 2020


+1 from me.

-phil

On 4/19/20, 7:07 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> On 4/13/20 11:21 pm, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> Looks like a few tests for menu mnemonics started to fail 
>> intermittently after this fix, I will double-check the root cause.
>
> Had to spend some time analyzing the new test failures, here is a new 
> webrev, see comments:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8242174/webrev.01
>
> In the CRobot.m the new changes are just the small cleanup
>  - gNextKeyEventTime is initialized to zero
>  - CGEventPost now use "kCGHIDEventTap" which aligned to the new 
> "kCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState"
>
> The "/RealSync/Test.java" was removed from the problem list as it now 
> passed, checked in mach5 lots of times.
>
>
> The test/jdk/ProblemList.txt was updated due to different reasons. The 
> fix itself make the robot more stable,
> lots of tests which previously were unstable due to robot now always 
> passed. But there are a few tests which
> started to fail:
>
>  - java/awt/TrayIcon/ActionEventTest/ActionEventTest.java: the test 
> does not check that the robot actually
>    clicks on the tray icon, So it is always passed on macOS due to a 
> bug in the robot, and after the fix
>    when the robot actually started to click on the tray icon the test 
> started to fail, filed:
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242801
>
>  - java/awt/keyboard/AllKeyCode/AllKeyCode.java; The test presses the 
> "help" button which starts the
>    "macOS subsystem machinery", which changes the cursor, ignores all 
> key presses and waits for the
>    first mouse click on the component for which the help should be 
> provided, and this broke the tests
>    executed later, filed
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242930
>
>> On 4/13/20 8:09 am, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>> Please review the fix for jdk/client.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242174
>>> Fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8242174/webrev.00
>>>
>>> This is part of the effort to stabilize the execution of our nightly 
>>> tests. We already fix most of the
>>> issues in the tests which made the OS and other tests unstable for 
>>> some reasons.
>>>
>>> And this is attempt to fix the "product" bug. I have found that some 
>>> of our tests, like
>>> "java/awt/Dialog/NestedDialogs/Modeless/NestedModelessDialogTest.java" 
>>> have the code like this:
>>>    robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT);
>>>    robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_H);
>>>    robot.waitForIdle();
>>>    robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_H);
>>>    robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT);
>>>
>>>
>>> This should work fine, but unfortunately on macOS, such code 
>>> produces "random" strange
>>> results, sometimes some keys are pressed but never released, 
>>> sometimes the shift
>>> modifier is disappeared and so on. The situation is quite bad 
>>> because the test itself is
>>> passed but leaves the modifier key pressed, this occurred in 
>>> different tests and caused
>>> to fail some other tests around.
>>>
>>> Note that our code is implemented according to the official Apple's 
>>> documentation, so I had
>>> filed a bug to Apple:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242174?focusedCommentId=14328518&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-14328518 
>>>
>>>
>>> So in this fix, I tried to follow the recommendation above. For all 
>>> events(except mouse move)
>>> an additional delay(50 ms) is added. If the test already uses some 
>>> delay then the biggest
>>> one will be used(the new delay will not be added to the old one)
>>>
>>> This new delay will solve the problem of events lost, but it does 
>>> not fix the problem of disappeared
>>> modifiers(SHIFT/CTRL, etc). I tried different solutions and finally 
>>> was able to find one suggestion
>>> which works fine, is to use 
>>> CGEventSourceCreate(kCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState); instead of 
>>> NULL in our events:
>>> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/cgeventsourcestateid/kcgeventsourcestatehidsystemstate?language=objc 
>>>
>>>
>>>
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