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jlfreund
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GetChildElements erroneously returns <UNINITIALIZED>

Hi,

My app downloads and parses some XML that contains


...
<categoryList>
<category>Name1</category>
<category>Name2</category>
<category>Name3</category>
</categoryList>


And successfully parses down to


if posterItem.Getname() = "categoryList" then
categoryItems = posterItem.GetChildElements()
for each categoryItem in categoryItems
' CRASH: categoryItem = <UNINITIALIZED>
print categoryItem.GetName()


The problem is that when I print categoryItems from the dubugger, I get 3 valid children whose names match the expected category names. But when I try to iterate over categoryItems using for each, it always prepends three <UNINITIALIZED> values before the valid values.


Brightscript Debugger> p categoryItems
<Component: roXMLElement>
<Component: roXMLElement>
<Component: roXMLElement>

Brightscript Debugger> p foreach categoryItem in categoryItems
<UNINITIALIZED><UNINITIALIZED><UNINITIALIZED><Component: roXMLElement>
<Component: roXMLElement>
<Component: roXMLElement>


Does anyone know why that may be, and how I could fix or workaround the problem or detect the error upstream? I don't see any problem with the XML itself.
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RokuMarkn
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Re: GetChildElements erroneously returns <UNINITIALIZED>

This seems to be a problem with the debugger but not with the language. The failure happens when you run the foreach statement in the debugger, but it seems to work ok when compiled into a channel. This works for me:

string ="<list><c>name1</c><c>name2</c><c>name3</c></list>"
xml = createobject("roXMLElement")
if not xml.Parse(string) then stop
categoryItems = xml.getChildElements()
for each categoryItem in categoryItems
print categoryItem.GetName()
end for


This prints

c
c
c


--Mark
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RokuMarkn
Visitor

Re: GetChildElements erroneously returns <UNINITIALIZED>

Hm, actually I can't reproduce the problem with the debugger either. Can you give a complete example of how to reproduce it?

--Mark
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jlfreund
Visitor

Re: GetChildElements erroneously returns <UNINITIALIZED>

Hi, thanks for the quick reply. I was going to send the sample offline, but was able to sanitize it enough to post here (for everyone's benefit).


Sub Main()
rsp = "<menutree><roPosterScreen><categoryList><category>1</category><category>2</category><category>3</category></categoryList></roPosterScreen></menutree>" xml=CreateObject("roXMLElement")
xml.Parse(rsp)

rokumenu = xml.GetChildElements()
for each element in rokumenu
if element.GetName() = "roPosterScreen" then
posterScreen = element.GetBody()
endif
next

for each posterItem in posterScreen
if posterItem.GetName() = "categoryList" then
categoryItems = posterItem.GetChildElements()
for each catgoryItem in categoryItems
print "categoryItem: " + categoryItem.GetName()
if categoryItem.GetName() = "category" then
print "Push " + categoryItem.GetBody()
endif
next
endif
next
End Sub
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RokuMarkn
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Re: GetChildElements erroneously returns <UNINITIALIZED>

Hm this is a strange one. Simply changing the names of two variables (categoryItems -> cs and categoryItem -> c) seems to fix the problem. I've filed a bug on this and we will investigate.

--Mark
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jlfreund
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Re: GetChildElements erroneously returns <UNINITIALIZED>

Thanks! That workaround works for me as well.
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