1057557 - Improve error message when passing a Uint*Array to mozTCPSocket.send instead of an ArrayBuffer

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

The error message is quite uninformative, it is something like: "uncaught exception: out of memory error". Obviously this makes finding the error quite hard.
We should either improve the error or automatically use the |buffer| property of the Uint*Array.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I'd expect an NS_ERROR_FAILURE exception, not something about "out of memory"...

The right solution here is to make this a Web IDL API, by the way; that will get you sane error reporting for free.

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

See also bug 1057538, where the NS_ERROR_SOCKET_ADDRESS_IN_USE error isn't propagated. I guess something similar is happening here.
I remember fixing a similar bug for mozApps.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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