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Rangi Keen reassigned NETBEANS-1834:
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Assignee: Rangi Keen
> Possible race condition in ExplorerActionsImpl
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> Key: NETBEANS-1834
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1834
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: platform - Explorer
> Affects Versions: 8.2
> Reporter: Rangi Keen
> Assignee: Rangi Keen
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: ExplorerActionsImpl.Race.patch
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> {{ExplorerActionsImpl}} uses a background thread to determine the enabled
> state of its actions. The background thread calls
> {{ExplorerActionsImpl.BaseAction.toEnabled(boolean)}} to set the target state
> from the background thread and then queues up a call on the {{EventQueue}} to
> be run on the EDT that calls {{ExplorerActionsImpl.BaseAction.syncEnable()}}
> which calls {{setEnabled}} if {{toEnable}} is non-null.
> However, since the check for {{toEnable != null}}, the use of {{toEnable}} in
> the call to {{setEnabled}}, and the set of {{toEnable = null}} are all on
> separate lines there is the possibility that another call to
> {{toEnabled(boolean)}} will set {{toEnable}} after the call to {{setEnabled}}
> but before it is reset to null. The end result is that if the new value of
> {{toEnable}} was different from the one being acted upon, the action may end
> up in the wrong state.
> One solution (in [^ExplorerActionsImpl.Race.patch]) is to use an
> {{AtomicInteger}} to get the value of {{toEnable}} and set it to null (or
> {{NO_CHANGE}}) atomically, thus avoiding the race condition.
> I don't have a reproducible case in the NetBeans IDE, but we encountered this
> in our custom application using the NetBeans platform. The attached patch
> solved the issue in our case.
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