<AWT Dev> RFR: 8226806 [macOS 10.14] Methods of Java Robot should be called from appropriate thread

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Fri Mar 13 00:24:37 UTC 2020


Looks fine.

-phil

On 3/12/20, 5:14 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Any volunteers to review?
> This could be a reason of test instability.
>
> On 3/5/20 12:52 am, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> Hello.
>> Please review the fix for jdk/client.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8226806
>> Fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8226806/webrev.00
>>
>> On macOS 10.14(and not on 10.13/10.15) some of the Robot
>> operations produce the warnings in the error log which
>> suggests that the used API should be called on Appkit thread only.
>>
>> Some related information can be found here:
>>      https://indiestack.com/2018/08/let-it-rip/
>>
>> The root cause in the case of Robot is the generation of
>> keyboard events. To fix that, I have moved these methods to the
>> Appkit, even mouse events to prevent races between event generations.
>>
>
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