Issue 83004

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Execute the code below to fill the clipboard.
Try to paste in OpenOffice 2.3 Writer (or older version). Notice the error
message "Requested clipboard format is not available".

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The formatted text should be inserted.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

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import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.IOException;

public class HtmlStreamCopy {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        String htmlText = "The quick <font color='#78650d'>brown</font>
<b>mouse</b> jumped over the lazy <b>cat</b>.";
        Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
        Transferable htmlTransferable = new
HtmlStreamCopy.HtmlInputStreamTransferable(htmlText);
        clipboard.setContents(htmlTransferable, null);
    }

    private static class HtmlInputStreamTransferable implements Transferable {
        private final DataFlavor _htmlDataFlavor;
        private final String _htmlText;

        public HtmlInputStreamTransferable(String htmlText) throws
ClassNotFoundException {
            _htmlText = htmlText;
            _htmlDataFlavor = new DataFlavor("text/html; class=java.lang.String");
        }

        public DataFlavor[] getTransferDataFlavors() {
            return new DataFlavor[]{_htmlDataFlavor};
        }

        public boolean isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor flavor) {
            return "text/html".equals(flavor.getMimeType());

        }

        public Object getTransferData(DataFlavor flavor) throws
UnsupportedFlavorException, IOException
        {
        	return _htmlText;
        }
    }
}
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DISCUSSION:

The reason copy & paste of text/html from Java to e.g. OpenOffice Writer doesn't
work (tested with different JDK 1.4.2, 1.5 and 1.6 and Windows 2000, similar
problem was reported also for Windows XP as issue 51267) seems to be that Java
sets the StartHTML and EndHTML properties of the Windows HTML clipboard format
to -1.  

See http://www.peterbuettner.de/develop/javasnippets/clipHtml/index.html

If I use the Clipview app on that page and manually modify the StartHTML and
EndHTML properties of the text/html copied from Java, I am able to paste it into
OpenOffice Writer.