Re: OSX failing to get a url for image even though it is a supported dataflavour for the transferable

[Paul Taylor]

On 22/09/2014 14:03, Scott Palmer wrote:

The XML has an array of two strings.  Are you sure you aren't getting
the error from the second blank string?

Scott
Ah, good point BUT why would getTransferData() return an empty value, I 
dont see I have any control over that ?


Paul

Re: OSX failing to get a url for image even though it is a supported dataflavour for the transferable

[Scott Palmer]

The XML has an array of two strings.  Are you sure you aren't getting
the error from the second blank string?

Scott

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Paul Taylor paul_t...@fastmail.fm wrote:
 Customer reporting this error when trying to copy and paste an image from
 amazon, although we check the transferable object support a particular
 dataflavor, it fails when try and use that data flavour to get a url. Ive
 not seen this error before and recently moved to Java 1.8.0_20 so I'm
 assuming the issues lies with Java 8 ?

 java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ?xml version=1.0
 encoding=UTF-8?
 !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN
 http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd;
 plist version=1.0
 array
 stringhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NTPXC8EHL.jpg/string
 string/string
 /array
 /plist

 at java.net.URL.init(URL.java:586)
 at java.net.URL.init(URL.java:483)
 at java.net.URL.init(URL.java:432)
 at
 sun.lwawt.macosx.CDataTransferer.translateBytes(CDataTransferer.java:135)
 at
 sun.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardTransferable$DataFactory.getTransferData(ClipboardTransferable.java:71)
 at
 sun.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardTransferable.getTransferData(ClipboardTransferable.java:168)

 Code Extract

 public static DataFlavor imageUrlFlavor =  new
 DataFlavor(application/x-java-url;class=java.net.URL);
 public void getImage(Transferable trans)

 if(trans.isDataFlavorSupported(FileDropTarget.imageUrlFlavor))
 {
 imageUrl  = (URL)
 trans.getTransferData(FileDropTarget.imageUrlFlavor);
 }