On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:06:24 GMT, Anton Litvinov <alitvi...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> Could you please review the following fix for the bug specific to macOS. The 
>> bug consists in the fact that if the method 
>> "java.awt.print.Printable.print​(Graphics, PageFormat, int)" throws 
>> "java.awt.print.PrinterException" or "java.lang.RuntimeException" during the 
>> call "java.awt.print.PrinterJob.print()", then the exception is caught and 
>> ignored by JDK and a user cannot learn that printing failed and what caused 
>> failure of printing, because "PrinterJob.print()" method does not throw 
>> "PrinterException" or the occurred exception is not reported by JDK through 
>> the error stream.
>> 
>> ROOT CAUSE OF THE BUG:
>> The root cause of the bug is the fact that in the method 
>> "sun.lwawt.macosx.CPrinterJob.printAndGetPageFormatArea(final Printable, 
>> final Graphics, final PageFormat, final int)" from the file 
>> "src/java.desktop/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CPrinterJob.java" the 
>> exception thrown during execution of the expression
>> 
>> "int pageResult = printable.print(graphics, pageFormat, pageIndex);"
>> 
>> is caught but is not returned to a developer by any mean or is not printed 
>> out to the error stream.
>> 
>> THE FIX:
>> The fix implements propagation of the occurred and caught exception to the 
>> level of the user's code executing "PrinterJob.print()" method. Propagation 
>> of the exception by storing it in the instance variable of "CPrinterJob" 
>> object is implemented, because the engaged code always is executed:
>> - on 2 threads (non-EDT thread, EDT thread) in case when 
>> "PrinterJob.print()" is called by the user on a non-EDT thread;
>> - on 3 threads (2 EDT threads, a temporary thread started by JDK to execute 
>> "CPrinterJob._safePrintLoop(long, long );") when "PrinterJob.print()" is 
>> called on EDT thread.
>> 
>> The regression test which is part of the fix was also successfully executed 
>> on MS Windows OS and Linux OS.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Anton
>
> Anton Litvinov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Third version of the fix

Ok. Please file a bug as you mention to bring the other platforms into line.

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Marked as reviewed by prr (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4036

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