On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:30:13 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aiva...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I can understand that as a user, you cannot /shouldn't change the name of a >> remote network printer but a network admin can change the name, so shouldn't >> we get notification on that name change when this method gets called after >> the name change? or would it be notified as a new printer in that case? Then >> what will happen to the old stale printer in the registry? > > You can't. Try it yourself. The printer connection is per-user, after all > it's stored under HKCU. > > Windows displays the name of remote printers as “Generic / Text Only on > 192.168.1.18”: _the name of the printer_ and _the remote host_. > > If you open the *Printer Properties* dialog of a remote printer and edit its > name, you change the name of the printer on the remote host which shares it. > It changes *absolutely nothing* on the local system. > >> shouldn't we get notification on that name change when this method gets >> called after the name change? > > Yes, we should. But we cannot. > > For Windows, nothing has changed on the local system, it's the remote system > that has been changed. > >> or would it be notified as a new printer in that case? > > No, it wouldn't _because nothing has changed on the local system_. > >> Then what will happen to the old stale printer in the registry? > > Nothing, again. It just stays there but Windows reports an error if you try > to open its Printer Properties, Windows reports an error if you try to print > to it. I tried printing with Java and Notepad: the behaviour is the same. The > difference is that Notepad displays the error message whereas Java throws an > exception (it depends on the Java app, I guess). > > The behaviour aligns to the one seen when the printer is unreachable because > of, let's say, network issues. OK. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2915
