Can't use BXMLSerializer from non-AWT threads makes background resource loading impossible ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: PIVOT-780 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-780 Project: Pivot Issue Type: Bug Components: core-beans, wtk Affects Versions: 2.0.1 Reporter: Piotr Kołaczkowski Calling bxmlSerializer.readObject from a non-AWT thread causes the following exception: <code> An error occurred at line number 5 in file /C:/Users/Piotr/Projekty/viungo/viungo-editor/target/scala_2.9.0/classes/com/viungo/editor/CircuitEditor.bxml: org.apache.pivot.serialization.SerializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: this method can only be called from the AWT event dispatch thread at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.processStartElement(BXMLSerializer.java:769) at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.readObject(BXMLSerializer.java:441) at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.readObject(BXMLSerializer.java:624) at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.readObject(BXMLSerializer.java:579) at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.readObject(BXMLSerializer.java:540) at com.viungo.editor.CircuitEditor$$anon$1.execute(CircuitEditor.scala:21) at com.viungo.editor.CircuitEditor$$anon$1.execute(CircuitEditor.scala:18) at org.apache.pivot.util.concurrent.Task$ExecuteCallback.run(Task.java:42) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: this method can only be called from the AWT event dispatch thread at org.apache.pivot.wtk.Container$1.run(Container.java:864) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.Container.assertEventDispatchThread(Container.java:871) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.WTKListenerList.add(WTKListenerList.java:36) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.ComponentSkin.install(ComponentSkin.java:96) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.ContainerSkin.install(ContainerSkin.java:129) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.WindowSkin.install(WindowSkin.java:66) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.Component.setSkin(Component.java:749) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.Component.installSkin(Component.java:812) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.Window.<init>(Window.java:453) at org.apache.pivot.wtk.Window.<init>(Window.java:448) at com.viungo.editor.EditorWindow.<init>(EditorWindow.scala:20) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.newTypedObject(BXMLSerializer.java:1556) at org.apache.pivot.beans.BXMLSerializer.processStartElement(BXMLSerializer.java:767) ... 11 more </code> Loading objects in background is very important, so that the user can see e.g. a progress indicator while the rest of the UI is deserialized. Doing this in AWT thread, blocks what is currently displayed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira