TransferHandler.pasteAction should not use Clipboard.getContents() for performance reasons

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    • Type: Enhancement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: P5
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    • Affects Version/s: 6
    • Component/s: client-libs
    • Cause Known
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      TransferHandler's paste action uses Clipboard.getContents()
      to retrieve a Transferable from the clipboard and pass it to
      TransferHandler.importData(). Clipboard.getContents() is known
      to be quite expensive as it fetches data in all available flavors:
      refer to the bug 4790833(Memory usage shoots way up using
      Clipboard.getContents()) which was fixed in tiger. On the other
      part, data in only one flavor are pasted typically.

      The fix for 4790833 introduced new Clipboard methods:
      getAvailableDataFlavors(), isDataFlavorAvailable() and
      getData() that allows to fetch data for only one flavor.

      So I propose to make use of these Clipboard methods in the
      implementation of TransferHandler's paste action.

      ###@###.### 2005-04-15 10:05:54 GMT

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            Reporter:
            Alexander Gerasimov (Inactive)
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