Add awt native open commands by LyzardKing · Pull Request #7037 · JabRef/jabref

LyzardKing · 2020-10-23T14:53:14Z

Fixes flathub/org.jabref.jabref#3
As discussed in gitter the confined releases do not play nicely with xdg-open.
The flatpak fails directly, and the snap asks for confirmation every time.
If we introduce awt.open it works as intended with native commands/windows.
It works in confined and unconfined releases.

At the moment this is a draft pending further tests

Change in CHANGELOG.md described (if applicable)
Tests created for changes (if applicable)
Manually tested changed features in running JabRef (always required)
Screenshots added in PR description (for UI changes)
Checked documentation: Is the information available and up to date? If not created an issue at https://github.com/JabRef/user-documentation/issues or, even better, submitted a pull request to the documentation repository.

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-23T16:49:19Z

As suspected, you need to add an annotation to the class

java.lang.AssertionError: Architecture Violation [Priority: MEDIUM] - Rule 'no classes that are not annotated with @AllowedToUseAwt should access classes that reside in a package 'java.awt..'' was violated (3 times):
Method <org.jabref.gui.desktop.os.Linux.lambda$nativeOpenFile$0(java.lang.String)> calls method <java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop()> in (Linux.java:29)
Method <org.jabref.gui.desktop.os.Linux.lambda$nativeOpenFile$0(java.lang.String)> calls method <java.awt.Desktop.open(java.io.File)> in (Linux.java:29)
Method <org.jabref.gui.desktop.os.Linux.nativeOpenFile(java.lang.String)> calls method <java.awt.Desktop.isDesktopSupported()> in (Linux.java:25)
at org.jabref.architecture.MainArchitectureTests.doNotUseJavaAWT(MainArchitectureTests.java:75)

LyzardKing · 2020-10-23T17:07:28Z

Added.
However if I run from source (via gradlew) it works.
If I run jlink/jpackage it fails.
Is it possible that I have to add the awt package in the jpackage module list?

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-23T17:52:28Z

java.awt.desktop is part of java.desktop module and that is included. For me jpackage builds fine in your branch under osx.

LyzardKing · 2020-10-23T18:46:11Z

The flatpak works with the .tar.gz built with the change.
Unfortunately the snap now fails... if I try to open a linked pdf it fails and prints on screen what I think is the error log I left in the code, but garbled: %d [%thread] %-5level %logger - %msg%n

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-23T19:52:55Z

You could try to test if System.err.println or System.out.println produces a better error message

LyzardKing · 2020-10-23T19:59:07Z

I'll try that. If I were to make a random guess I'd say that the Thread part is failing in the snap..
But I'll test it to be sure

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-23T20:19:50Z

Try replacing the new Thread part with Swingutilities.invokeLater( () - > {
Desktop.open...
})
That dispatches the dialog call to the awt event queue https://stackoverflow.com/a/43766312/3450689

LyzardKing · 2020-10-24T08:49:09Z

The problem wasn't the thread..
The error is

java.io.IOException: Failed to show URI:file:<filepath>

where filepath is not utf-8 decoded (it shows %20 instead of a space), but that might be fine

I have a few things to test, since it might be simply a missing dependency to add to the snap

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-24T09:56:35Z

Ah I see. I think you need to call toAbsolutePath before Desktop.open(file.getAbsolutePath())

Also seems to be buggy on linux in general:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9692331/open-a-path-with-desktop-open-from-java-on-ubuntu-linux

LyzardKing · 2020-10-24T10:47:02Z

Solved. In the snap I had to set it to use the new gtk-portal.
To avoid issues it is not enabled by default, but with that option it works.
The issue is that now it opens PDFs succesfully, but not URLs.
A file is opened via Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File(filepath))
A url is opened via Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI(url))
I need to distinguish a filepath from a url... probably the fact that the filepath will always start with a "/"?

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-24T12:51:05Z

This probably needs some more refactoring.
In JabRefDesktop there is a method called openBrowser which simply calls openExternalFilePlatformIndependent :

jabref/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/desktop/JabRefDesktop.java

Lines 139 to 154 in 3123090

    
           private static void openExternalFilePlatformIndependent(Optional<ExternalFileType> fileType, String filePath) 
        
                   throws IOException { 
        
               if (fileType.isPresent()) { 
        
                   String application = fileType.get().getOpenWithApplication(); 
        
                   if (application.isEmpty()) { 
        
                       NATIVE_DESKTOP.openFile(filePath, fileType.get().getExtension()); 
        
                   } else { 
        
                       NATIVE_DESKTOP.openFileWithApplication(filePath, application); 
        
                   } 
        
               } else { 
        
                   // File type is not given and therefore no application specified 
        
                   // Let the OS handle the opening of the file 
        
                   NATIVE_DESKTOP.openFile(filePath, ""); 
        
               } 
        
           }

I guess it would make sense to implement a method openBrowser in NativeDesktop interface as default method, e.g.

 default void openBrowser(String url) throws IOException   {
        this.openFile(url, "");
    }

Then in the LinuxDesktop class you can simply overide the implementation.
And then simply change the calls from openBrowser in JabRefDesktop to NativeDesktop.openBrowser

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T07:25:48Z

The confined packages do not support the browse function (to open URLs). 👿 😡
So to avoid more refactoring (for now, it might be something to revisit in the future) I left the single nativeOpenFile function, that on a specific exception will revert to "xdg-open", since that works as intended for URLs.

This is used in the confined linux packages to open URLs

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T14:58:59Z

Try reverting to a thread to avoid incurring in the unittest for swing dependency.

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-25T16:30:44Z

Thanks for the work, if it works now it should be good

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T16:44:51Z

It should be good to go, I didn't end up doing the refactoring, although I think that in the future it might be a good step.
Maybe we can wait to see if javafx ends up implementing some of the native stuff.
I'll just run another snap build to verify that it still works with the Thread (it should).

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T16:55:21Z

It works.
@Siedlerchr Should I revert the logs to LOGGER.debug even if they don't work in the snap, remove them directly or leave them as println?

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-25T17:00:19Z

Regarding the thread, I think it would make sense to use our JabRefExecutorService instead, because it is based on a ThreadPool and will stop all running threads when you exit Jabref.

JabRefExecutorService.INSTANCE.execute( () -> { 
 // put the code  from inside the new Thread here 
 });

Regarding the Logger output, does not make sense to use them if they don't work correctly.

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T17:31:15Z


        if (type.isPresent() && !type.get().getOpenWithApplication().isEmpty()) {
            viewer = type.get().getOpenWithApplication();
+            ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder(viewer, filePath);


@Siedlerchr
Can we not remove this part and replace it with
Runtime.getRuntime().exec?
The code would be a lot cleaner..both here and in the openFileWithApplication methods..

This method is used when you have defined a specific app in JabRef (Manage external file types in the Settings dialog -> External programs)

At least we need this StreamGobblers which read the input and error streams, otherwise it could lead to hanging
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2071275/when-runtime-exec---won-t.html

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T17:42:32Z

The openFolder function can also be simplified to use the new nativeOpen...
instead of hardcoding some file managers..
It could be another PR though.. so we can first solve the issue of the files not opening..

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T17:57:49Z

EDIT: Nope..
It would only be for the default action, so I'm fine with leaving it as it is for now.
I'll look into everything else another time

LyzardKing · 2020-10-25T18:13:41Z

@Siedlerchr for me this PR is concluded.
It solves the issue. Any other changes will be done in anoter PR in the future.

Siedlerchr · 2020-10-25T18:17:08Z

Okay, that sounds good! Just waiting for someone else to take a look as well, so I don't miss anything ;)

* upstream/master: Fix 4040 link Bump java-diff-utils from 4.8 to 4.9 (#7061) Bump bcprov-jdk15on from 1.66 to 1.67 (#7063) Bump checkstyle from 8.36.2 to 8.37 (#7064) Bump mockito-core from 3.5.15 to 3.6.0 (#7067) Bump controlsfx from 11.0.2 to 11.0.3 (#7066) Squashed 'src/main/resources/csl-styles/' changes from 5297abd..5c376b8 add short date formatter (#7039) Add awt native open commands (#7037) Add online-link detection to FileFieldParser (#7043)

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Revert to xdg-open if the native awt operation fails.

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This is used in the confined linux packages to open URLs

Fix AllowedToUseAwt annotation use

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Use Thread to avoid swing dependency

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Use JabRefExecutorService to open files in Linux

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