javafx.scene.image.Image safer creation

ImageUtil.java

import javafx.embed.swing.SwingFXUtils;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.WritableImage;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

/**
 * This class does two important things:
 *
 * 1. We must never ever call `new Image(...)` without explicitly checking for errors using Image.isError and Image.getException.
 * This class helps us remember that this is needed. Always use this class for creating new instances of Image.
 *
 * 2. Avoid using com.sun.javafx.iio.jpeg.JPEGImageLoader to load images. That class uses native bindings to libjpeg which may get linked to
 * a non-compatible version on runtime. An exception with the stacktrace below is triggered _but swallowed_ as per above.
 *
 * Caused by: java.io.IOException: Wrong JPEG library version: library is 80, caller expects 90
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.iio.jpeg.JPEGImageLoader.initDecompressor(Native Method)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.iio.jpeg.JPEGImageLoader.<init>(JPEGImageLoader.java:185)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.iio.jpeg.JPEGImageLoaderFactory.createImageLoader(JPEGImageLoaderFactory.java:49)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.iio.ImageStorage.getLoaderBySignature(ImageStorage.java:421)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.iio.ImageStorage.loadAll(ImageStorage.java:266)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.PrismImageLoader2.loadAll(PrismImageLoader2.java:142)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.PrismImageLoader2.<init>(PrismImageLoader2.java:77)
 * 	at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.loadImage(QuantumToolkit.java:750)
 * 	at javafx.scene.image.Image.loadImage(Image.java:1060)
 * 	at javafx.scene.image.Image.initialize(Image.java:799)
 * 	at javafx.scene.image.Image.<init>(Image.java:702)
 *
 */
public class ImageUtil {

    public static Image createImage(File file) throws IOException {
        BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read(file);
        WritableImage writableImage = SwingFXUtils.toFXImage(bufferedImage, null);
        if (writableImage.isError()) {
            throw new RuntimeException(writableImage.getException());
        }
        return writableImage;
    }

}