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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8226417

cross platform print dialog file Destination issues

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P4
    • tbd
    • 8, 11, 13, 15, 16
    • client-libs
    • 2d

    Description

      Internally in the javax.print API we have some cases where
      we are using "file:out.prn" as the string with which to initialise
      a URI to create an instance of Destination.
      The intent is for this to be interpreted as relative to the CWD,
      and that requesting the path from a URI would return "out.prn"
      to be passed to a File constructor.
      But URI.getPath() will return null because it is considered opaque since it doesn't start with /
      Ideally you would be able to use new File(URI) but that fails
      with
      > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not hierarchical
      for such URIs

      We have "fixed" some cases where that was seen to use
      URI.getSchemeSpecificPart() to extract what we need but
      there is a location in ServiceDialog that was overlooked
      and can still generate such an error which is caught and
      so manifests only as substituting a different default file
      in the dialog.

      We probably should do the same to be more resilient ( but
      should we also think about whether we should be using
      "file:out.prn" in our code ? )

      That is issue #1

      Issue #2 is that we intend the file to be relative to the CWD
      but when the Swing JFileChooser is brought up to confirm
      the choice, it will present the file relative to the user's home
      directory, since that is the default for this component.
      We need to set it to CWD first.
      If the file is absolute everything is fine.

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            prr Philip Race
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